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wherein
a
pure
heart
is blefféd,
pureneffe of
their
hearts
will
fo
guide them in
their
wayes,
as
to_fpeake
and
to'
behave themfelves
in
fuch
a
manner,
that
he
fhall
be convinced
in
his
Confcience,
thefe certainly áre
up-
right-Men,
and
others that
have
been
about
me,
they
have
but
flattered me,
and
deceiv'd me,
and
led
me into evill
wayes,
into
wayes
that
have done abundance of
mitChiefe
in
the
King-
dorm
,
whereby thoufands
have
been opprefled,
and
their
blood
hath
been shed:
But
I
fee
theft
walke
uprightly,
accord-
ing
to their Principles
;
I
find
that
in
one
thing
as
well
as in
another
they
walke
according to
rule,
an,i
therefore
I
will
be
their
friend. O
let
us
pray
that
Cod
would make
good
this
promife. Certainly, if there
be
any
thing
in
the world
to
con
Vince,
it
is
a
cleane converfatnon out
of
a
cleane heart
:
Not
that
Men
only
pproferfe
purity
more then others, but
that
they
F
alke anfwerably,
and
they
manifeit
the
beauty
and
the
excellency of
a
cleane heart in
their
converfations
before
men,
this
will
convince
any
in
the
4vorld.Men may (peak
ill
of them,
and cry out
of them,and
fay
they are
hypocrites:
Well,let
the
'world
f:-eak
like the would,
let them
¡peak
actor
ding
to their
ovine skill,
as
they
have in
the
w,yes
of Religion:
Doe
thou
goe
on in
the
wayes
of
holineffe
¡till
in
a
conf}ant
way,
and
let
there.
be
an
evenneffe in
thy
converfation
in
one thing
as well
as
anon
her manifeít the
purity
of
thy heart, and at length their
Ccnfciences will tell
them,
that
thy wayes are
better
then
theirs
;
Thou
wil: be
honourable in
the very
Consciences of
thefe that
have
cryed out
againf}
thee;
It
is
a
mighty
Convin-
cing thing urity
of
heart,
when
it
Chines
forth in the life
and
Converfation.
Fifthly, Againe,
Blefed
are the
pure;
For
all
things
arc pure
to
them
;
Tit:
a
,
t
5.
v,to
the
pure
all
things
are
pure
;
but
into
them
that
are
de
!led and
unbelieving, is nothing
pure;
but
even
their
mind and
Coi,
fcience
is defiled.
O
thou
haft
a
ftncti-
feed ufe
of
every thing,hath
<
;od
fanaifed
thy
heart,and
doelt
thou endeavour to
fan
&tifìe
the
name
of God
in all
thy
wayes,,
know
that
all things
are
fanaied
to thee
;
And this
one word
it's
worth
a
kinwdome,worth
a
worlc,That
all
things
(hozldbe
made pure
to
thefe that
are Beane And this
the
Lord
faith,
than