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application
of
the Poynt.
And
if
you
would
be pure
in your
hearts ,
be
pure
in your
thoughts.
Math:
i
5.
19,
2o.
Out of
the heart comes
evill
thins
that doe defile the
man;
And the
firft
of
all
are un-
cleane
thoughts
;Out
of
the heart.
proceed
evill thoughts, mur-
ders, adulteries, &c. Take heed
of
defiling
your
hearts
with
tncleane
thoughts,
if
you
would
see
God
with
Comfort
; and
take
heed of Interefling
your felves in
any
bufinef e any
fur-
ther
then
you can fee
God
goe
before
you.
If
a
man
once
be got into
a
buf
neffe
, O
if
things
doe
not goe according
to
his
delire ,
how
will he shift up
and downe and
defile
himfelfe ,
aboundance of
by
-wayes he will have
to
shift
for
hirnielfe ,
O
take
heed of that
:
And
take
heed of
a
fen
-
ftrall
life,labour
to
live
above
fence,whenmen
and
women have
fenfuall
lives, are earthly,
and
they
muff have
creature-Com-
forts
here,
O
they
defile
themfelves every
day
exceedingly.
No
marvaile though worldlings, and
uncleane
wretches
know
fo
little
of
God
,
and have fuch
poore
low thoughts
of
God,
O
they doe defile their
foules
fo as
they
cannot fee
God
;
la-
bour
to
keep
your
felves,cleane
And
you
that
have through
the
mercy of
God
had your
Confciences and
Soules
purified
;
keep
your foules
fill
pure,
and
labour for more
and
more puri-
ty,upon this ground,becaufe
you may
more
and
more
fee
God;
Is
it
not
Comfortable
to
fee
the
face
of God
:
Light
is
Com-
fortable, Ecclef 11.
7.
O
how
Comfortable
is
it to
fed
God,
therefore
cleanfe your foules
more
and
more
---
And
Ìnlrove
this
priviledge
of)
our eye-fight
;
Improve
it;
wharrdoth
je-
fus
Çhrift
promife
that
you
fhall
fee
God,
and
is
this
the
blef-
fingpzomifed
to
you
,
why
then Improve
it,
make nie
of
it,
and
fet
your eyes
upon
God
while
you
live
in
this
world
;
and
make,
it
your work
to Conte plare
upon
God
Many,
even
Ch;iftians,they live
as
if
there
were._no
:blefhng,in.feeingGod,
but
if
there be
fuch
a,blelfìng,
then
why are
not your thoughts
more
upon
God
then,
they
are
?
Every
time
you fee
God
;n his
creatures,
you
Il;ould
even,
gaze-
upon
the Glory of Cod,'
O
this
is
my
God
;
And when
you look
into
his
Word,
and
come
to
his
Ordinances,
and worfEip
him,
why
doe not
you
fix
your
hearts
and eyes upon him
?
A Chriflian that
fixes his
eye
upon
God,