Text opened. 383 Blefed are thepure in hurt. This Chrif Makes the rude of blef edneffe, in oppofition ro. the way of the Tharifees : They madeble!fedneffe to confif} iiioutward purity, in their outward wa!hing3, but faith Chrild,. never fatisfie your felves in any ceremonial( holineffe, but look to your hearts, bleffed ar the pure in heart ; We shall open this purity of heart Firfi, What this purity of heart is, and then fhew you what a bletTed thing it is to have a pure heart. Onely premife this,fhat by heart, we are to underfand not only the will or atfeetions, but all the facculties of the foule, the mind, confcience, and thoughts, all is to be underf }ood by heart ; bletfed are thofe who have purity in their minds and confciences, in their thoughts, wills and affections. Purity, What's that ? Purity conlifts in the immixedneff- of any thing inferió ir, when a thing bath no mixture of any thing inferiour to its felfe ; that we account to be pure mettle which bath hot any thing bafer then it felf mixed with ir, if a mettle bath another mettle that is more excellent then it felfe mixed with it, that doth not make it impure, it may be pure fill, as if filverhathGold mixed with it, the liver is not mide impure by the mixture of Gold, but if it bath led or Tin mixed with it, its made impure : So the foul of man, there is nothing more excellent but God himfelf, now when the foule is mixt with the Divine nature then'its made more excellent, that's the perfeelion of in, but if the foule of man be mixed with any thing of the creature not in order to God, then 'tis impure, there is a mixture of fomthing that is worfe then it fell : when the mind hathprinciples that are beneath a right rational( un- derfianding, and fo when the thoughts have thofe things mixt that are beneath the excellency of uch a faculty as thinking and meditating is, and fo the wilt ancd of feet 'ns, when they have a- ny thingmixt the excellency of their faculty, then they come to be impure, and the more the thing is beneath the foul that they are mixed with, themore impure : as the fin of adul
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