H hat meant by .a pure [sure. aie not futable : So then, take all theferogether,' ancf you fee what 'a pure hart is : A heart watht in the blood of Chrift from the guilt of fin, A heart acaing by pure principles,. A heart cafting out the love of every known fin, A heart that harh a futablenefs to the hol:neis of God and of his law-5 A heart confecrared, denoted to Cod, That bath right ends for God iii all it doth, A heart working towards rhofè good ends in the plainneffe and fimplicity of the Gorpel, A heart that bath an agreeableneffé to whatfoever profeflion is made, or fervices that are done, This is a pure heart ; Now blelfed is the pure in heatr. If this be pure, where will you find this purity of heart in any, Prov. 20. 9. Who can fay he hath cleanfed his heart. To that its antwer'd, that Chrift fpea'tes here in a Gofpel way, thar.may be accepted for purity of heart, that yet hath much uncleannef e remaining in ir, but though there be, yet together with thefe dirpofitions there's added, Firfi, That there be pains taken to find out what corruption is remaining in thy heart, Lord, I beleeve I have corruption, O that I could find it our, when the heart of a man or woman is willing to fearch to find out all the corruptions, yea the fecret wandrings and turnings of my heart ; the Lord knowes that if he would fpeak from Heaven and ask me what I would have,he knowes that this would be one petition, that.I might know my own heart. Secondly, There is an unfeigned mourning for all the re- mainders of that impurity ; The heart when it bath found out any corruptien,it mourns over ir,it accounts it to be the evil, the diftemper ofthe heart, and that's obfervable,that the more peace there is in the heart through the alfurance that it is cien , fed in the blood of Chrift,rhe more doth it mourn; and lament for any uncleanneffe that ever hath been, or is in it, that Scrip- ture is very obfervable, in the 36 of Ezek. 25. Then will I fprirl4/e clean water upon you, and ye Thal /de clean : from all your filthinef f e and from all your Idols will I cleanfeyou ; A new heart al fo willlgive yoás, and a new fptrit will I put within jour: and fo be goes on,& then ,I wil alto fave you from all your uncleansffes; and
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