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394

The

excellency

of

a

pure

heart.

Comforts whatfoever

:

This will keep

thee

from

the defile-

ments

of

the

times wherein

thou livell

:

In

the

9

Pf

Bleffed

are

the

undefiled

in the

way,

they

walk

in the law

of

the

Lard

:

It's

a

blef

ed thing to

be undefiled

in our

way

, that

.

is,

when we live

in

the

world

and can

keep

our felves clean

fed from the

pollutions of the

world, unfpotted

in

the

world4

can

hive

'our

hearts

clean: There be

very few of

us bath done

fo, but when

we look back

to

the times

wherein we

liv'd

be-

fore, the times

wherein

there

were

fo

great temptations

to

that that

was

evill

:

Where's

the

man or woman

but

doth

fee

caufe

to

lament the defilements

of

their

confciences, and of

their

hearts

by

the pollutions of the times wherein

they

liv'd

:.

We

have fallyed our felves by fuperf

}ici

©us

vanities

here-

tofore,

and

not

only in

our actions have

been defiled, but

in

our very confciences,

and

jua

it

were with

the

Lord that we

ihhould

never come to fee

the

good Land that he

is

bringing

his

people unta, becaufe we

have

fo

fallyed

our

felves

by

the

fulerf}tttous vanities

of the times

Wherein we

liv'd;

How

hap

-

py

is

the

man or woman

that liv'd

in

former

times

wherein.

there

fo many

pollutions,

that yet kept

themfelves undefiled

in their

way

:

I

loll more

it

may

be

then

others

did,

yet

I

kept

my

heart

and confcience

clean,and

this

is

that that

is

the

com-

fort of

my foul

:

Bleffed are fuch,

the

Melling

of

God

is

upon

them,

and

Tall

certainly be

upon4them

in

a

glorious manner

SERMON