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o
urig!
meant
by
a
pyre
learn.
wherë
a
heart
is
f
ncere
in
the
renouncing
of
known fin,
and
can appeale
to
God,
Lord, thou that
knowafi
all !kings
knó,,ÿe'
eft, that
though
I
have many evills in my
heart,
yet they
ate
fuch
things
that
are loathfome
to me, that
Ì
abomin.tre
and
I.e.''
nóunce,
and
there
is
nothing oifagreeable to thy wiil,bt;t
Lo:d
thou that knoweft all things, knowelf
my heart
is
againfi,
this
is
a
pure heart
in
the Goipel
language,
than
bath
cat
out
the
love
of
every
fin,
let
confctence
speak
whether
it
be
fo
or
no;
fór
the
bleffedneffe
is annexed
to
this
;
and certainly
the
contrary
is
that
which
makes the
foule
to
be
an
objeói of
Gods
curie.
41y
A pure
heartis
a
heart that
bath
a
gracious frame,futable
tó
Gods
holineffe,where
there
is
a
futableneffe and agreeable
-'
neffe in the
heart
of
a
man or woman
unto the
holinefs
of
God,
to
the
holy
nature of
God,
and unto
the
holinefle
of Gods
lain,
this
is
purity.
Fifthly,
Purity
of heart
is
where
there
are
right
ends
and
aimes, or thus, where the heart
is
confecrated,
denoted,
given.
up
to
Gods
fervice,
makeing him
the
highell
end
of
all things,
and
accordingly bath right ends and aimes for
God
in
all it
loth
:
This
is
purity, what's the nature of Gods
holinef
ie,God
is
a
holy
God,
what's'that
?
you
know holineffe
it
is
the
confe-
cration of
a
thing, fetting
it
apart for
fuch an
end, Gods
boll
neffe
it
is
a
kind of
confecration
of
himfelf
as
it
were
tó
hint-
felfe,
as
the
laft
end;himf
if
is
the
lift
end,_and
the
excellency
of. his
nature
whereby he works ro
hiìnfelf
as
the\
laft
end,
and
wills
all
things in
order to
ir,
futable
to
his
own
infinite
excel..
lency
;
this
is
Gods
purity : But
if,you
will,
take his purity
thus
;
That
perfe&ion
of
his
will, whereby
he wills
himfelfe,
and all things futable
to
his own
infinite excellency
that's
Gods
purity
now
apure
heart
is
one that is thus
confecrated
to God,
as
the lift
end
of
all, and
fo works as
God
works
and in
all.
things bath right ends,
and
right
aimes at
God
;
this
purity
of
heart
is
in
oppoßtion
to
falfeneffe
of heart,
and
fo
I
find
fome
divines
carry this
purity
of
heart
for uprightneffe
when mens
hearts
arenot
double, they
have
not
by
ends,
and
feuint
-ey'd
aimes
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