(seq. 235)

(215)

his sins. And hence the building
comes to be undone because it is
unfounded. That the heart may
be upright then before God it must
first as it were make itself crooked
in stooping & bowing itself under
his mighty hand in the exercises
of humiliation. That the heart may
be whole it must be rent & broken.
corrupt & impure gold cannot be
desecated & rid of the dross, till it be
moulten & dissolved. Unsound
bodies, full of vicious humours
cannot come to any good estate till
they be well emptied by purgation
Humiliation is that which melts
us, purges us, & so makes us of
drossy sound, pure & strait chris
:tians. Dost thou then desire to be
a sincere christian indeed? thou
must first be broken & battered
in pieces, by the humbling hand
of God. - thou must remember
thy masters rule, "If any man
will be my disciple, tell him, de
:ny thyself."

[Marginalia cut off in gutter]
( eerum ne ra.)

Lastly, sincerity being opposed to
mixture (as the notation of the word
signifieth) that (which) cleanseth our hearts