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The
excellency
of
a
pure
heart.
terrible to
him,
and
therefore
he cryes out in
the
2.
v:
Walk]
me throughty
from
mine iniquities,
and
cleanfe me
from
my
fu,
and then in the
6.
v:
Behold
thou defireft
truth
an
the inward
parts,
and
in
the hidden
part
thou
fhalt
make me
to
know
wifdom,
purge
me
with
hyfope
and
I
fhall
be
clean,
waft
me,
and
Fall6e
whiter then
:Puny,
then
what follows
in the
R.
v..,
Mahe
me
to
hear
joy
and
gladnef
,
that
the
bones
which thou
haft
brohert
may
rejoyce :
Make me
to
hear joy and
gladneife,
as
if
he
should
fay,
I have
dehl'd
my
foul
with this
lin
of
mine
,
and
the
voice
of
joy
and
gladnetie
is
gone
from my
heart,
and my very
bones are broken with the
burden
that
iz
upon
me for
my
fin,
but
Lord
purge nie
and
cleanl
nie,
and
then the voice of
Joy
and
giadnefie
will
be in
my
foul
again
Can
any
of
you whofe
consciences
áre.ha
ure,
and
that
tell
you
of
bare uncleanerfe
that
are
in your
hearts
and wayes
;
Can
you
re;oyce,
have
you
gladnetfe
in your
coenten-nces,
in your wayes,
cetainly
you
know
not
God,
you
know hirn
nor,
for
did
you
know
what
a
God
it
is
you
have
to deal
withal!,
till the Lord
hid
purged
you,
you
could never
have
joy
in
your hearts
;
'lis
a
fïgne
that
the
grace
of
God
is
irithe
heart
of
a
man
or
woman,when
as
they
have
defld
themfelves with
any
fin, there's
nothing
in
all the world that
can
give
,oy
and gladnetfe
to their
hearts,
till
the
Lord
bath
i-:urged
them
and cleanfed
them,
Bieffed
therefore
are.
the
pure
to
heart
:
There
are very niany
excellen-
cies
in this
purity
of
Heart.
Fourthly,
Bleß'ed
are the
pure ín
heart, further, for
there
are
the
men that
are fit
to
ferve
+
rods defignes in
the
wayes of the
Go`'pel,there
be no men fit
fog
the
defignes and wayes
of
God
in
the Gofpel, but your
clean
hearted men, God
takes node-
light
to
make
ure
of
your cunning crafty men:
that
are
crafty
in
a finful way
:
It's
true,
the Lord
requires
us when
we live a-
mong
wicked men,
to
be wife
as
Serpents
and innocent
as
Doves: But
I
freak of
cunning and craftineffe when they
have
to
deal with
God,
God
takes no
delight
to
make
uie
of
there,
`but
your
plain, upright
and.fncere
hearts
are
fit
to
ferve the
defignes
of God
in
the
wayes
of theGofpel,
As
in
the
2,4
Fí
3,
4.
who
fiall
a
fcend
into
the hill
of tke
`Lord,
and
who
(hall
Hand