What meant by aprtre heart., adultery and fornication, it's call'd by the HolyGho( },unclean neffe felf,becáu íe it's one of the meanei}and brutithetf things, for the faculty of a rational! foule to mix it felf with : There_ forte that bath the 'denomination of xncleanñcfe,' Thus much fo: vvhat'Purity is in general!. Bat What's a pure heart ? You may take inftead of a defcription, there Z things tc make up the purity odour hearts. Firft, The heart muff be cleanfed from the guilt of fin through faith, made lure that way, waihr With the, blood of , Jefus Chri(f, no heart is pure elfe, in Acfs r 5, y, And he put no d fference between us and them,purifyina their hearts by faith: This Scripture is ordinarily taken for the work of Sanc;}üìcari on, that comes into the heart by faith, but if you obferve the, context, you 'hall rather find it to be that purity that comes in by faith in Jufti ,ation : for it's fpoken of the Gentiles that .. were accounted an unclean people to the Jewes, but faith the Apo(fle here, God bath taken away their uncleannelle, fo: he,, bath purified their hearts by faith : They by faith having be_ , leeved in Jefus Chrif}, the Lord accepts of them as of the chil- dren of Abraham ; the Lord now hash taken away their ún -. cleaneffe, through their beleeving in Jefus Chill} he birth fo purified their hearts by faith, that through faith they are ac- counted as clean before God as any child of ,.?brahasn : they are come into the Covenant wi h God, and fo no more recko- ned among the unclean ones, being puri . ed by faith : are all impure naturally, and though we think that by leaving Tome grope fins, as Tome men that in the time of their youth have liv d in force groffe fins, they leave them, and live better,and fo think they are cleanfed, yet certainly the great work of cleaitfing the foul, is the Application of the blood of Jefus Chill unto it to wan, the foul from its former uncleanneflè ; the heart is never pure till then, all thy breaking otf, and leav- ing thy finfull wayes, and living better, iviIl never make . thy heart pure before God, it mull be the walking of the blood of Jet's
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