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We must not think that that which will pass
for pure Religion and undefiled before God, consists
in an outward blameless convenation, or in putting
on and wearing an external garb of prossesion [procession]:
no, as the top of it reaches higher, so the root of it
lies deeper; it is rooted in the heart, this seed being
sown in an honest heart (or making the heart honest
in which it is sown) takes root downward, and
brings forth fruit upward; as trees that grow as far
underground as above, [?o] these trees of righteousness,
the planting of the Lord that he may be glorified,
grow as far & as fast underground as above; Godliness
grows as far downwards in self emptying, self-denial
and self-ab[?as]ing, in hungering and thirsting after
more righteousness, in the secret engagements of
the heart to God in Christ, in these burstings of heart
and bleedings of Soul (to which God alone is witness)
because of shorecomings in holiness, because of a body
of death within, and because if that law in the members,
warring against the law of the mind, and
bringning often in to captivity to the law of Sin; as it
grows up-ward in a prosession [procession]: and this is that pure
Religion and undefiled before God, which is
both most pleasant to him, and profitable to the Soul.