364 Of the Blef dnefs of the Pure in Heart. S ER M. And if we attend to the rearon of the cafe, XIII. it will evidently appear that the do&rine of the fcripture is perfe&ly agreeable to it ; for all rational and moral powers and affe &ions are in order to a &ion, and it is only by their effeds we can difcern them and acknowledge their being; it is thus we judge of wifdom, kindnefs, or any amiable or virtuous quality, and fo we muff judge concerning fincerity and purity heart ; by its fruits we flail know it ; and mull conclude, as the apoffle teach - eth, Heb. X. 22. if we would draw near to God with true hearts in the affurance of faith, our bodies mull be wafhed with pure water (our lives purified and reformed) as well as our hearts fprinkled from an evil con - fciénce, and that this latter without the other, is in vain pretended to. I come now in the next place, Secondly, To confider the blefi'ednefs an- nexed to the qualification, which bath been explained, and it is feeing God. The divine being is not the obje& of our external fenfes; he is invifible, a pure fpirit, whom no man' bath feen at any time, nor can fee ; nor indeed is he, at leafl in our prefent flee, the imme- diate obje& of an intelle&ual vifion; for now we fee him but darkly and through a glafs : There
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