The excellency of a pure heart, 389 and I will call for the corne,&c, and then in the 31 verfc, 7 hen fell ye reivembcr your own evil! teayes, and your doings that were notgsod, and fall loath your felves in your oon fght for your ini- quities and for Your abominations. And God accounts them to be cleanfed that do loath themfelves for their iniquities and abo- minations : And no men and women do more loath themfelves for their iniquities and abominations, then thole that ate moil cleanfed from their iniquities and abominations ; its a notable Scripture for ir, and fpeakes of the times of the Gofpell, that f hewes the evill of thole vaine and wanton fpirits among us, that in magnifying of free grace grow fooli1l and wanton, and never fenfible of the remaining evills that are in their hearts, they think they are cleanfed by the blood of Chrif }, and by the Spirit of Chrif} : but the text promifes, that when the Lord fhall cleanfe his people , that then they fltall loath them - felves for all their abominations, and for all their evils. Though there be evill remaining, yet flill one that hath true purity doth watch over himfelfe to prevent the ecealons of e- vill as much as may be. And foutthly, Such a one loves the flriaef} rul'e,I find much impurity in my heart, but God knowes the llric}eil rule I aim at, and thole that grow up moil in godlineffe my heart is moil with them. -Fifthly and laRly, my foul longs for perfe&ion, I hope there is a time coming when all my defilement íhall be done 'away, for the prefe.nt my foul is waiht, perfected in refpec& of its j}uflificatiôn. and I look for a time that it flail be perfea in refpea of San&ification,O that that time were come ; certain- ly here's a pure heart, and therefore do not fay, where is the pure heart ?and who can make his heart pure?and are there -any that are pure ? The next thing is to let out unto you' the excellency tkac.. there is in a cleanse heart. Fitt}, A pure heart, That fhewes the excellency of ir, that it is the fruit of the blood of Chrifl, and the work of the Holy Ghoft ; Thofe two Scriptures you had, i Revel.& in-36 Ez,ek deer this ; tis walks with the blood of. Chrifi, and by the holy, GhoL
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