LEIGHTON.

To set the outward actions right, though with an honest intention, and

not so to regard and find out the inward disorder of the heart, whence

that in the actions flows, is but to be still putting the index of a

clock right with your finger, while it is foul, or out of order

within, which is a continual business, and does no good. Oh! but a

purified conscience, a soul renewed and refined in its temper and

affections, will make things go right without, in all the duties and

acts of our calling.

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