Gods trial of his Children by cleansing their hearts. [ 848]
VVHen the Queen of Sheba came to hear the wisdom of Solomon, 2 Chr. 10. the more to scarch out the same,* 1.1 as the Rabbines do observe, she dressed Boyes in Womens apparell, and Girls in Mens apparell, asking of him which were the Boyes, and which the Girles; whereupon he bids them all to wash their hands and their faces, and those which he perceived to wash the more, them he judged to be boyes, the other girls: Thus the Lord maketh a difference to be seen betwixt his children, the children of light, and the children of darkness, by how much the more his children do purifie and cleanse themselves, to be kept un∣spotted of the world; it is not a little smearing will serve the turn with them, but rather than they shall seem not to be sufficiently cleansed, they will cry out with 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Amplius lava me Domine, Lord wash me throughly, &c. Psal. 51.