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SERMON
XXV.
OR.
Lllkes^ein
a
pure
heart
ii
3leed.
M
A
T H.
5.
8.
Blef
ed
are the
pure
in heart,
for
they
_?all
fee
Clod.
E
enured upon
this
fixth
Rule of
bleffednefle
the
lafi
day,
and
fhall now
proceed.
ßlef
ed.are
the
pure
in
heart.
That
fpirituall
cleanneife
ofthe
foul
of
a
man
or woman, is
a
very
bleifed thing
;
It's
bleifed,.
Firfl,
If
we confider
the
excellency
of
a
mans
f.ful,the
more
excellent
'a
thing is,
the more
good
there
is
in the
keeping of
it
clean
&
pure
from
defilements
;as
now,if
you have a
peace of
coa:fe cloath,
you
do
not
fo
much
care to keep that clean, as
you
do to
keep
fine
Lawn and
Cambrick,
is
s
worfe for
that
to
have
a
ílaine in
it,
then
for
a
piece of
fack-
cloath
to
have
a
fain
in
it
:
why
the
excellency
of
a
mans foule is
fuch as
it
is
beyond
all
creatures that ever
God
made, except the Angelis,
all the works
of nature, and
therefore
tie
cleanneife
of
a
mans
foul, o be
kept
from
Haines
and
from
filth,
muff
needs be
an
excellent thing.
Secondly, and
betides,
in
the
fecond
place, by
the
clearings
of
a
minx h
2a
-t,
a
man
comes to
(savour
the
wo-d
of
God,to re-
lith
fpirituall
and heavenly
truths
;
they
are bleffed that have
L e e a
cleane