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Blefed
are
the
pure
in
heart.
This
Chria tiiake the
rule of
bleffednefpe,
in
oppofition
ro,
the
way
of
the
mharifees
:
They made bleflednelìe
to
con(ii
iii outward
purity,
in
their outwardwa!hing;, but
faith
Chrifl,
never fatisfie your felves
in
any
ceremonial'
holineffe,
but
look
to
your
hearts,blefted
arc the
pure
in
heart ;
We
'hall
open:
this purity
of
heart
Pirt
,
What
this
purity of
heart is,
and
then
flaew you
what
a
bletled
thing
it
is
to
have
a
pure
heart.
Onely
premife'this,fhat
by
heart,
we
are
to
underhand not
onely
the
will
er atfedions,
but
all
the
facculties of
the foule,
the mind,
confcience, and thoughts,
all
is
to be
undertiood
by
heart
;
bletfed
are
thofe
who have
purity in
their
minds and
confciences, in
their thoughts,
wills
acid
affecIions.
Purity,
What's
that
?
Purity
coiififts
in
the
immixednef
e
of
any
thing
inferi'our,
when
a
thing
bath no
mixture of
any
thing
inferiour
to
its felfe
;
that we account
to be pure mettle
which
hath'not
any
thing bafer
then
it
fell
mixed with
ir, if
a
mettle
bath another
mettle
that
ì§
more excellent
then
it
felfe
mixed with
ir, that
doth not
make
it
impure,
it
may
be
pure
Rill,
as
if
Liver
hathGold
mixed with
it,
the
Liver
is
not made
impure
by
the mixture
of Gold,
but if
it
hath
led
or
Tin mixed
with
it,
its
made impure
:
So
the
foul
of man,
there
is
nothing
more excellent
but
God
himfelf,
now when
the
foule
is
mixt
with
the
Divine
nature.
then'its
made more excellent,
that's
the
perfecîion of
ir,but
if the
ioule
of
man
be mixed with
any
thing ofthe creature not
in odder
to
God,
then
'tis
impure,
there
is
a
mixture
of
fomthing
that
is
worfe
then
it felf
:
when
the
mind hath principles
that
are
beneath
a
right
rational( un-
derfianding,
and fo
when
the
thoughts have thofe things
rpix
that
are
beneath
the
excellency
of
alch
a
faculty
as
thinking and
meditating
is,
and fo
the will
and
ajfeÉ'n is, when they
have
a-
ny
thing mixt beneath
the
excellency of
their
faculty,
then
they
come
to
be impure,
and
the
more
the
thing
is
beneath
the
faul
that they are mixed with,
the more
impure
as
the
fin