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390

The

excellency

of

a

pure

heart.

Ghofl it's cleanfed,

furely

that that

is

the fruit

of

the

blood,af

Chrif}

that's

purity,

when

the blood of

Chrif} and

the

holy,

Cboft

as

water comes to

be.

powred our upon

the

foule,

furely..

thefe mutt

work

moll glorious cleanefs

Ind

purity.

Secondly,

This

purity of heart,

is

the c.ote

ibundneffe

'of

Spirit

:

It's

that

will

help

againft

diltempers,

fo

that

though

there

be outward

occafions

to diftemper the heart, yet where

the

heart

is

clean within,

it

will not be

diftempered

as

others

are,

as

'tis

with the body, the body

of

a

man

that

is

foule,

let

fuch

a

one

take

but

a

little

cold,prefently

there

will grow

f

ch-

nets,

if there

be

any

externill

thing

that puts

him

out

of

any

orderly

courte, then he will

fee

the

foulnele

of

his

body,

and

he faith,

it

was

the

cold

I

took at

fuch

a time,

the

cold

thou

tookefl,

it

was

the foilnefs ofthy body,

and

thiscold

thou

haft

is but

that

hath occafioned

the Itirringof the

humors

of

thy bo-

dy

tome way

.or

other A

foul

body

is

very

fib

-e6t

to

dileafes

upon

any

occafion,but one that bath

a

cleanbody,:hat

is

clean-

fed from

fuch

humors

that'are

iii

chers,

let

fetch

a

one indure

cold

or

heat, whatfoever outward

thing

befits

him, yet

his

-body

is

kept

whole

and

found,

why

it

is from the cleannefs

that

is

in

his

body,

fo

it

is

in

the

heart, the

hearts

of

men that

are

impure,

when

any

temptation

comes

to

evil,

it

dorh

might

tily difiemper thein,what

a

deal

of

filth appears

in

their

hearts

upon

the

occafion

of

any

temptation,

and

they

lay

it

upon the

temptation,

though

they

had

tempted

thee

never

fo much,

yet if there

had not

been

much'foulneffe

in

thy

heart,the

temp-

tation

would

never

have

prevailed,.faithChrif},7

he

Devil

comet

the

finds

nothingin me.In that

one

thing

of

pailîon and

anger:

Many

of

you

feem to

live very fair andplaufibly

-in

your

courfe,

let

fotne

cone

and anger you,

that

you

are put

into

a

pallion,

whit

a

deale of

filthinefs and bafenefs will

appear,

in

you

:

You

will

fay,

it

was

fuch

a

one

that

angred

me,

and he pro-

vokt

me,

and why

did

he

do

thus and thus againll

me,

fo you

are

ready

to

lay all

upon

the temptation,

when

thetruch

is,

it

was

from

the

fiL_hinefle

of

your

corruptions,

for

all the

filthy

fturfe

'hat

ap

ears in

a

pailïon,

it

was

there before,

'only:

there

was an occafion

to'(r

it;

but there

it

lay

before,and

this temp

-.

ration