1;c. excellency of a pure heart,. 39I tätion loth but now.make appear what was before in the Karr, but :now one that's pure in heart, one that bath thofe cortue- ti'ons morti ìed, that is cleanfed from pride, and fell-love, and the. like, though filch a one be wronged, yet he can keep him- felf in a meek and quiet temper, he can commit his cauCe to GOd, and gö and make his moan to God, Bleffrd are the pure in heart, they are of Found and hail Spirits and are nor eafily dì- uiempered as other men are, and hence follows, they have found hearts; 2 Tins: 7..1. Thirdly, Bleffed are the pure in heart, for they have much peace of confcience, they are able to look upon the face of God with peace and joy,when God appears in his great works abroad in the world their conîciences (peak peace unto diem, and they rejoyce that they have to deale with firth a holy God as the Lord is, and all this comes from the cleanness that there is in their hearts, in the i i job 14, 1 5. If iniquity he in thine. hand, put it far away and let not wrrkednefs duel in thy Taber- nacles : What then? For then fhalt thou lift up thy face with- out fpot, ye,thon(halt be f eadfffi and (hall not fear . Mark,here it's fpoken concerning the having of clean hands, and putting iniquity far from us, furely when we have not only put iniqui- ty from -otir hands, but from our hearts, when wickednefs is not only far from our Tabernacles, but far from our hearts, then (hall we be able to lift up our faces without fpot, to be fIeadfaf},& not to fear whatfoever evil tydings cotnes,we (hall be able to look upon the face of God, to lift up our couatenan- _ces and not to fear ; When a man hash guilinefíe in his heart, aSad he hath an impure concience,fucha man though he can lift up his face when -he is among his impure company, yet when God comes to cal him before himfelf,& bath to deal.with him . iò that he (hall fee plainly 'tis the jufi, right, & holy God that pow I have ro deal withal,that I (land before, an impure; con- fcience an impure heart will then.caufe terror tobe in men,& be ready to Overwhelm thE with horror the prefence.of God its very dreadful to an impure heart : Blcffed are the pure in heart,, for they fhal fee God,the prefence of God (hall be joyful( unto them,not to others; In the 51 Pfal: 7, 8. David there having de il'd his heart, began to look upen the prefence of God as terrible.;
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