§. Sect. 4 That in our preparation we must purge our selues from all sinfull cor∣ruption.
And as we must thus in our preparation purge our hearts from world∣linesse, so must we with no lesse care cleanse them from all sinfull wicked∣nesse. * 1.1 To which purpose we must search and examine them, if no sinnes lye lurking in them vnrepented of, especially such as most hinder our pro∣fiting by the publike Ministery, as wrath and maliciousnesse, (and chiefly against our teachers) filthinesse, dissimulation, hypocrisie, preiudice and forestalled opinions, voluptuousnesse, couetousnesse, worldlinesse, and such like. And yet more particularly wee must call to our remembrance what sinnes wee haue committed the weeke past, and seriously repent of them; lest continuing in our wicked courses, and cherishing our sinnes, (as it were) in our bosomes, when we present our selues before God, they moue him to abhorre vs, and our sacrifices of prayer and thankesgiuing, * 1.2 and to giue vs ouer to be further hardened by the deceitfulnesse of sinne: whereof it will follow, that our hearts becomming fat, our eares heauie, and our eyes shut, we shall heare, and not vnderstand, and see, but not per∣ceiue, that we might be healed and conuerted. And this the Lord requi∣red of the Israelites, that they should first wash them, and make them cleane, * 1.3 (namely, in turning from their sinnes by vnfained repentance) and then approch and come vnto him. The which was typically signified by that