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406

ZJ1efaill

Tloter,

.cleanneffe

of

our

hearts

:

That

we

might

turn faith

Daniel

from

our

iniquities,

and underhand thy

truth

As

if

he lhould

fay,

fo

long

as the

live in our

iniquities

and

defile

our

foules

by

our

iniquities, we'lhallaiever

be able

to

underfland

thy truth:

But

when we come

to

turne

f:o

a

our

iniquities, then

our

un-

derllandin`

s

will be

deer

, then

we shall know

God

and the

things

of God

in

another manner then ever we

knew

them

be-

fore And

in

the

left

of Dan:

v, t

o.

faith

the Text,

Many

fhall

be

purified

and made white, and

tryed,

but the

wicked

'hat!

;do

wickedly,

and

none

of

the

wicked flsall

underfland, but

the

mi

fe

pall

underftand

:

When

God

purities the heart then

-he

makes

-them

to

underfland

his

wayes,

but

none

of

the

wicked

OA(

underfland Gods

mind, their

hearts being'uncleane they

can

-

-not come to underhand

the

mind of(

,od

and

the

things

of

-God

:

The

underflanding

of

man

-it

hath

a

Die

from

the

will

and

the

affeekions,

that

look

as

the

will and

effedions

are,

fo

there

is

I

fay,a

Die

upon

mans

underflanding,as

it

is in

the

be-

dy,look

how

the

flomack

is,&

the diflemper of

divers

difeafes

.are,

fo

there

is

a

tinaure

upon

the

eye, the

eyes

of

imen

by

fome

kind

-of

difeales are

mightily

tnfeded

by ill fumes

that

do

arise

from

the

flomack,

fo

the

eye of the

foule

is

very

much

infecked from,

the

will

and

from

the affekions,as the

bo-

dy,

when

there

afcends no

ill vapors up

to

the eyes,

the

eyes

are

deer

and are

able

to

f

ee; but now in

force

difeaf

s

where

vapors do

afcend

up

to the

eyes, the

eye

is

diflempered

and

fees according

to

chofe

vapors:

So

if the hearts

-of

men

be

<clean,

then

ir

lees

the

truths

of .god

plainly and

cleerly,

but

if

-the

heart of man

be unclean,

then

it

is noc

able

to

fee God

-more

the things

of God.

Secondly, The

will of man

it

hath

a

great

command

over

the underf ending, the

will

of manic is

able

to

command

the

underflanding to

work about

fuch

a

work or about

another:

To

turn

away

fröm this

objet

or

the other object,

fo

that

if

die

will-

of

bean,

and

the

affedions are

dean,

then the

tilt

will

put

the

underflanding upon

meditating

on

God,

and the

ti;

in;s

of Gód

of

faflning

the

eye upon fpiritual things :

But

now,

if

the

heart be uncleane, then

it

will turne

away

thy:

underlfait-

ding