...foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it, but wounds and bruises and putrifying sores." "Unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing...pure, but even their mind and conscience is defiled; — being abominable and disobedient and unto every good work reprobate." "That which is born of the...

...misery (till you return to God) : your carnal hearts turn all to sin ; " Unto the pure all things are pure : but unto them that are defiled, and unbelieving,...pure : but even their mind and conscience is defiled d." 7. While you are unsanctified, you are impotent, and dead to any holy, acceptable work : when you...

...for an unpardoned sinner can have no communion with a most holy God. Unto the pure, all things are pure : but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving,...pure ; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. The mind is the fountain from whence all the streams flow. Out of the heart proceed evil thoughts,...

...Or else God would never have said as he hath done, that " unto the pure all things are pure : but to them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure, but even their mind and conscience is defiled" (Tit. i. 15.); and that "every creature is sanctified by the word of God and by prayer" (1 Tim. iv....

...end must needs make it evil. " Unto the pure all things are pure (that is, all things not forbidden), but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure, but even their mind and conscience are defiled." Quest. ' But must all wicked men therefore forbear recreation? Answ. 1. Wicked men are...

...conjoined by St. Paul, as commonly jumping together in practice; Tit. i. 15. and to them, saith he, that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing' pure, but even their mind and conscience is defiled: such pollution is not only consequent to, and connected with, but antecedent to infidelity, blinding...

...by his spirit, that dwelleth in you." Rom. viii. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. " Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving, is nothing pure; but even their minds and consciences are defiled. They profess that they know God, but by works they deny him, and...

...most desperate state of sin, in which a man can be sunk, when he says, " unto the pure all things are pure ; but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving...; but even their mind and conscience is defiled." For what indeed can be a more hopeless condition, than when that very conscience, which God has mercifully...

...parts. The apostle has drawn the character of such persons in its proper colours, when he .says, " To them that are defiled and unbelieving, is nothing...; but even their mind and conscience is defiled." Reason tells us, that the branches must be in the vine ; and must abide in it, that they may bear fruit...

...well conjoined by St. Paul, as commonly jumping together in practice ; and ' to them,' saith he, ' that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure, but even their mind and conscience is defiled :' such pollution is not only consequent to, and connected with, but antecedent to infidelity, blinding...