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3

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14

hat

meant

by

.a pure

heart,

are not

futable

:

So

then, take

all

thefetogerher,

nd'

you

fee

what

à

pure

hart

is

:

A

heart

wafht

in

the

blood of Chrift

from

the

guilt

of

fin,

A heart

aaing

by

pure

principles,

A heart calling

out the

love of

every

known fin,

A

heart

that harh

a

futable.nefs

to

the

hol

:nets of

God

and

of

his

law

A

heart consecrated,

denoted to

God,

That

bath right

ends

for

God

in

all

it

cloth,

a--

A.

heart

working towards thole

good

ends

in

the

plainnefle and

fimplbiciry

of the

Gospel,

A

heart

that bath

an

agreeableneffe to whatfoever

profeflion

is

made,

or

fervices that are

done,

This

is

a

pure heart

Nov

blelfed

is

the

pure in heart.

If

this

be

pure,

where will

you find

this

purity of heart

in

any,

Prov. 20.

9.

Who

can

fay

he bath

cleanfed

his

heart.

To

that itsaniwer'd, that Chrift

fpeakes

here

in

a

Gofpel

way, that,

may

be accepted

for purity of

heart, that

yet

bath

much uncleanneffe remaining

in

ir, but

though

there

be, yet

together

with thefe dilpofitions

there's

added,

Firft, That

there

be

pains taken

to find out

what corruption

_

is

remaining in thy

heart, Lord,

I beleeve

I

have corruption,

O that

I could find

it

our, when

the heart of

a

man or woman is

willing

to

fearch

to

find

out

all

the corruptions,

yea

the

fecret

wandrings

and turnings

of

my

heart

;

the Lord

knower

that

he

would fpeak

from Heaven

and

ask

me

what

I

would fiave,he

knower

that

this would be

one

petition, that

I

might

know

my

own

heart.

Secondly,

There

is an

unfeigned

mourning

for

all

the

rep

minders

of that

impurity

;

The heart

when

it

bath

found out

any

corruption,it

mourns

over

it,it

accounts

it

to

be

the

evil,

the

diflemper of the heart,

and

that's obfervable,that the

more

peace

there

is

in

the heart through the

durance

that

it

is clen

-,

fed

in

the blood ofChrift,the more doth

it

mourne

and

lament

for

any

uncleanneffe

that ever

hath

been,

or

is

in

it,

that

Scrip-

ture

is

very obfervable, in the 36

of

EzeI.

2

S.

Then

will

I

fprinkle clean mater

upon

you,

and

ye

fh.

all to

clean :

from all

your

filthinefre

and

from

all your

Idols

will

I

clearfe

you

:

A

new

heart

willIgive

you, and

a

new

fpirit

will

put

within

,ou,.

and fo

be

goes-on,&

then,I

tril al

fo

lave

you

from all

our

Hncle nrfj'es;

mot