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What meant
by
a
pure
heart.
efus
Chrif}
:
and
fo
the very
firfl
moment
the
foul
comes
to
believe
in
jefus
Chrift,
it
is
wacht from
the
guilt
of
fin,
for
fo
the Scripture
fpeaks
of taking
away
the
guilt of
fin, by
that
ex
preffion
of
wail-ling
with the blood
of
jefus
Chrift,as in
i
Rev.
5.
v.
Who
hath
trued
ns
and
wa/hed
to
from
our
fins
in his own
Rood.
The
foule
as
foon as
it beleeves
in
Jefus
Chrift
is
waibt
from
the
guilt of
fin, fo
as
it
(lands
as
pure before
the Lord
as
the child that's
neW
borne,
and
much
more,
for
there
is
origi-
nall
corruption, but
he
is
cleanfed from
the
guilt of
all
thofe
'filthy
and
abominable finfulí
courfes that he bath
lived
in,
and
that the
foule
is
deiìled
withal!,
it
Elands
clean before
God
through,
the blood
of
Chrifl,being
wail-led.:
That mutt
be
Eat
or
else all
other
purity
is
nothing.
Secondly, A
pure heart,
is
a
heart acted
by
pure principles,
The
Scripture
ipeaks
of tien
of
corrupt minds,
`2
Tim.
3.
S.
And likewife
-of
pure minds,
2
Pet.
3.
r.
There
is
much
un-
ckanneike
in
mens minds,
in
the upper chamber
of the foule,
as
"may
fo
callit
;
and
whereas the
foul
did
act from
corrupt
principles,f-om unworthy
apprehenfions
of God
and
the thing
c
of
:.od,from
baleCorrupt notions
that
it
had
of
things
it
a&ed;
now its
cleanied, that is, thole corrupt princi
:les
are done a-
way, and
ir
comes to
have
pure principles, right
apprehenfions
of
God,
and
of
the
wayes
of God,
of the Covenant
of
;race,
and
of
the
courfe
of
a
chriftian, and what
ever might further
the
wayes
of
bolinef e
in him, the
foule
Nadi
right apprehenfi-
ons
of
them,
and
the
foul is
fill'd
with gracious
and
pure
prin-
ciples,
and
ads
from
them
:
we may
eafily
fee
by
mens- wayes
and.courfes
that they
are
of
corrupt
minds,and from there
their
hearts
are
fo
filthy and
vile.
Thirdly,
A pure heart
is
fuck
a
one,
as
bath
raft out
the love
of
every
known
fin,
and
mingles not
wi.h it though never
.f®
fnaall
;
finch
a
heart
as
bath rend raced
every
known way
of
e-
vill; though
there
is remaining force
impurity
in
ir, yet
ir can
appeale
to God that there
is
no known
way
of
,
n
but
it
hates
&..
abominates
it
;
this
is
call'd purity
of
heart
in
a
f
.
oipel lan-
guage, if
God
CI-odd
reward
meen
according
to
the
law,
it
would
not be accounted purity,
but
in
the "Go
t:eI
language
JD
d
d
where