tr 646, 11 A Bo% of precious Ointment .. Or, is, that good old way that leads to peace and reft to heaven.. and happinefs. I Evangelical purity of heart lies in this,:..that it will ' not admit any .known fin to mingle with the frame and ' utpofeof the heart ; a pure heart like a pure fountain,will I ;till be a working and a calling out the mucl and filth that is in it : Though fin may cleave to a regenerate man, as drofs (loth to the flyer, yet it mingles not _with the regenerate part', nor the regenerate part mingles not with it, no more than oyl mingles with the water, or water mingles- with the oyl. Now you know, though the water and the.oyl- touch one another, yt,they do not mingle one with another; fo though ., grace and fin, in a 'regenerate man, one as it were, touch one another; yet they don't mingle ne With another. Dear hearts, look, as -,.:ve truly faY, that that gold is pure gold-that is digged out of the IVI:neral,' though much drofs. may hang about it ; and as We truly fay; that fuch and filch an Air is . pure Air, though at times tirt,?:;r cf.- he, ITV I' y fogs and mids'with in it ; and as we truly fay, i:1-)at. f .ct, and fuch fprings are pure fprins., thOugh.mUdy and4irt.,.... 'and filth may be lying at the bottom of tftofelpringS ; and a .,,:':.. a :I'llly fay, I that face is a fait-face, though it Nth forne f -ec _' > in it; fo we may.as truly fay, that {lath and faCh a heart i a pure ' heart, though . there may. belnuch enfol. drofs and..fit th cleaving to it.' The Jr n., report,that when 1Vmh fti4foith his fons to people the world, h deliVered to every one of them fome Reliques of old Ad,qIn.'; it may be fabulous fo:::- the hiflory,: but true in the morality, the Itelicies. of hiS finful corruptions cleaves dole to us all. Beloved, the bell, the wifeff, the holieft, and the moil 'mortified C.hritlians on earth, do carry about with them a body of fin and death, they have in them a fountain of original-corruPtidn;: and from this fountain fin will flitl be- atifing bubling and a boyling up as the fcum in a pot.over the fire: but mark, as iii\Yine, :-. or honey, or water, though 'fCurn and filth May .Iarife; yet the wine, the honey, the water, will be 'frill a ply:ging and purifying it fell, and a working :411 carting it out ; f6 though fin; though corruption, thoUgh fpiritualfilth may, andItoo often doth, arife- in :a-graciouS- :11Gart, yet there is a fpring of grace, :a fpring of liviiitTlv47. teri it
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