for, brethren, you have been called to liberty. only abuse not this freedom as a pretext to vice, but in offices of love be as servants one to another.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God.

A pure

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

a good man out of the good treasure produces good things: and an evil man, out of the evil treasure, produces evil things.

making no difference between us and them, having purified their hearts by the faith.

Avoid the passions of youth. pursue justice, fidelity, benevolence and concord with all sincere christians.

address your selves to God, and you will find him present with you: cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, you that are diffident.

You that have purified your souls by the holy spirit, in obeying the gospel, which obliges you to an undisguised benevolence, let your hearts be mutually affected with the most disinterested ardour;

he that hath such an expectation should purify himself, even as he is pure.

A good

assisted by faith and a good conscience: for some having discarded the one, have entirely lost the other.

but by their integrity maintain the reverence due to the gospel.

Then Paul directing himself to the council, thus said, "hitherto I have liv'd strictly conscientious, as God knows."

and 'tis my endeavour to preserve a conscience free from reproach both with respect to God, and with respect to men.

I call Christ, and the holy spirit to witness with my conscience, that I speak the truth without guile, when I say,

for this is to me matter of glorying, the testimony of my conscience, that without artifice, and with religious sincerity, not by worldly wisdom, but by God's favourable assistance I have behaved my self towards all men, but more particularly to you.

When I remember you, as I continually do in my prayers night and day, I give thanks to God, whom I serve with a pure conscience, after the example of my fore-fathers.

to the pure all things are pure: but to corrupt infidels nothing is pure; whose very mind and conscience is polluted.

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the holy spirit offered himself a spotless victim to God, purify our souls from deadly sins, to serve the living God?

let us draw near with sincerity, in full assurance of faith, having our consciences purified from guilt, and our bodies washed with pure water.

Pray for us, for we trust we have a clear conscience, and desire our virtuous conduct may appear to all the world.

always maintaining a good conscience, that instead of inveighing against you as evildoers, they may be cover'd with confusion, who traduce your virtuous behaviour as Christians.

General references

these two precepts comprehend the substance of all the law and the prophets.

and 'tis my endeavour to preserve a conscience free from reproach both with respect to God, and with respect to men.

let all your transactions flow from social affections.