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Rh Ignor. I will never believe that my heart is thus bad.

Chr. ''Therefore thou never hadſt one good thought concerning thyſelf in thy life. But let me go on: As the Word paſſeth a Judgement upon our HEART, ſo it paſſeth a Judgement upon our WAYS; and when our thoughts of our HEARTS and WAYS agree with the Judgment which the Word giveth of both, then are both goody becauſe agreeing thereto.''

Ignor. Make out your meaning.

Chr. Why, the Word of God ſaith, ''That mans ways are crooked ways not goody but perverſe: It vaith. They are naturally out of the good way, that they have not known it. Now when a man thus thinketh of his ways, I ſay when he doth ſenſibly, and with heart-humiliation thus think, then hath he good thoughts of his own ways, becauſe his thoughts now agree with the judgment of the Word of God.''

Ignor. What are good thoughts concerning God?

Chr. Even as I have ſaid concerning our ſelves) when our thoughts of God do agree with what the Word ſaith of him. And that is, when we think of Rh