And Iacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I haue seene God face to face, and my life is preserued.
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TSK · Matthew 5:8
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And though after my skinne the wormes destroy this body, yet shall I see God in my fleshe:
With the cleane thou wylt be cleane: and with the frowarde thou wylt be frowarde.
Neuerthelesse, lo thou requirest trueth in the inwarde partes of me: & therfore thou wylt make me learne wisdome in the secrete part of myne heart.
A psalme of Asaph. Truely the Lorde is very good vnto Israel: vnto such as haue a cleane heart.
Then wyll I sprinckle cleane water vpon you, and ye shalbe cleane: yea from all your vncleannes and from all your idols shall I cleanse you.
And put no difference betwene vs and them, purifiyng their heartes by fayth.
Seyng that we haue these promises (dearely beloued) let vs clense our selues from all fylthynesse of the flesshe & spirite, and growe vp to full holynesse in the feare of God.
Howe much more the blood of Christe, which through the eternall spirite offered hym selfe without spot to God, shall purge your conscience fro dead workes, to serue the lyuyng God?
Folowe peace with all men, and holynesse, without the which, no man shall see the Lorde:
Drawe nye to God, and he wyll drawe nye to you. Clense your handes ye sinners, and purifie your heartes ye double mynded.
Dearely beloued, nowe are we the sonnes of God, and yet it doth not appeare what we shalbe: But we knowe that when he shall appeare, we shalbe lyke hym, for we shall see hym as he is.