Matthew Poole and continuators on John 15:3

3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you e.

Now that the Traitor is gone out from you, ye are all clean, not by any works which you do, much less upon the account of any legal and ceremonial rites and purifyings; but through my Word, you believing and obeying, Eph. 5 26. 1 Pet. 1.22. Our cleansing is in Holy Writ attributed sometimes to the Blood of Christ, sometimes to the Spirit, sometimes to the Word By the Blood of Christ we are made clean as to Iustification; washed; but yet we had need wash our feet, contracting soil every day in a sinf[illegible: 2 letters] World, from which we are cleansed by the purifying Vertue of the Holy Spirit, working by, and together with the Word▪ which purgeth us of our dross, and maketh us obedient to the Will of God.

Marginal references: Chap. 13.10▪