390 The excellency of a pure heart. Choi} it's cleanfed, furely that, that is the fruit of the blood,óf Chritl that's purity, when the blood of Chrifl and the holy, Choft as water comes Co bepowred our upon the foule,,furely there mutt work moll glorious cleanefs .knd purity, Secondly, This purity of heart, is the c..uie of.ioundneff 'of Spirit : It's that will help againfl diflempers, fo thac though there be outward occafrons to diflemper the heart, yet where the heart is clean within, it will not be diflempered as orhors are, as 'tis with the body, the body of aman that is foule, let fuch a one take but a little cold,prefently there will grow fic>c- nets, if there be any externall thing that puts him out of any orderly courfe, then he will fee the foulneffe of his body, and he faith, . it was the cold I took at fuch a time, the cold thou tookett, it was the for refs of thy body, and thiscold thou haft is but that bath occafioned the fining of the humors of thy bo- dy tome way `or other -: A foul body is very fab -e6 to diieafes upon any occafion,but one that hath a clean'body,:hat is clean - fed from fuch humors that "are ùio_hers, let fuch a one indure cold or heat, 'whatfoever outward thing . befals him, yet his body is kept whole and found, why it is from the cleannefs that is in his body, fo it is in the heart, the hearts of men that are impure, when any temptation comes to evil, it dorh migh- tily diftemper them,what a deal of filth appears in their hearts upon the occal on of any temptation, and they lay it upon the temptation, though they had tempted thee never fo much; yet if there had not been much'fou hielte in thy heart,the temp - tatiortwould never have prevailed,faithChrift,7he Devil comer a the find, nothirt in me.ln that one thing of paft'ion and anger: Many of you feem to live very fair andplaufibly.in your coúrfe, let forne'conie and'aüjer you, that you are pur into a pailion, whit a deale of filthinefs and bafenefs will appeare in you You will fay, it was fuch a one that angred me, and he pro - vokt me, and why did he do thus and tlius againfl me, fo you are ready to lay all upon the temptation, 'when the truth is, it was froth the a.hinelle of your corruptions, for all the flthy iturfe That ap :ears in a pafison, it was there before, only there was anoccafron to fir its but there it lay before,and this Temp-. tation
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