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eating the forbidden Fruit; or to speakmore expresly, on the intemperance ofAliments, condited with pernicious andcontagious Corruption: for which cause, ,this intemperance & corruption mastbe \mortified,that the old Destroyer of Man <may be restrained,8c that that may be re- ,paired by newness of life,which makes us ,like our heavenlyFather in incorruption, ,And our Restorer Jesus hath taught ■ ,us two ways to Regeneration : one by tthe Water of Baptism, and the other 1by the Fire of the Holy Ghost. Water twashes away the spots, and Fire con- pfumes and separates all impurity from rthe pure essence : and as his precious (Blood ( which is true Water indeed)purges away our sins, and saves us from tthat death, which the mortal corruption aof our earthly Parent introduced ; so eWater dissolves and purges away those. t cexcrementitious impurities which cor- trupt all substances. The Fire of the \Holy Spirit consumes and separates athe excrementitious impurity of sins, siand so the vulgar Fire blots out the im- t:purity of Bodies; which should there- iifore be mortified, that it mayberege- v ir

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