392 The excellency of a pure heart. terrible to him, and therefore he cryes out in the 2. v: yya1l, me throughly from mine iniquities, and cleanfe me from my fin, and then in the 6. v: Behold thou defsreft truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden part thou 'halt mak,g me to /know wifdom, purge me with hyfope and I (hall be clean, wafh me, and I 'Fall bt whiter then fnow, then what follows in the 8. v.., Mahe me to hear joy and,gladnefs, that the bones which thou haft broken may rejoyce : Make me to hear joy and gladneife, as if he should fay, Ihave detïl'd my foul with this fm of mine , and the voice of joy and gladneße is gone from my heart, and my very bones are broken with the burden that i> upon me for my fin, but Lord purge me and cleanfe me, and then the voice of joy and gladnefle wilt be in my foul again : Can any of you whole consciences áre impure, and that tell you of bale uncteaneffe that are in your hearts and wayes ; Can you re;oyce, have you gladneife in your counreninces, in your wayes, ce :ta;nly you know not God, you know him not, for did you know what a God it is you have to deal withal, till the Lord Ind purged you, } ou could never have joy in your hears ; 'Tis a ligne that the grace of God is in the heart of a manor womin,when as they have defild themÇelves with any fin, there's nothing in all the world that can give joy and gladnetfe to their hearts,- till the Lord bath purged them and cleanfed them, Eief ed therefore are. the pure in heart : There are very many excellen- cies in this purity of near-. Ponrthly,'Bleffed are the purein heart, further, for chefe are the men that are fit to ferve t: gods defignes in the wayes of the Gofpel,chere be no men fit fo" the defignes and wayes ofGod in the Gofpel, but your clean hearted men, God takes no de- light to make ufe of your cunning crafty men: that a -e crafty in a finful way : It's true, the Lorcr requires us when we live a- mongwickedmen, to be wife as Serpents and innocent as Doves: But I freak of cunning and craftipeffe when they have to deal with God, God takes no delight .to make ufe of thefe, `but your plain, upright andfncere hearts are fit to ferve the def;nes of God in the wayes of the Gofpel, As in the 24 P(: 3, 4. who Pall afcend into the hill of the Lord, and who /hall Rand
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