394 The excellency of a pure heart. Comforts whatfoever : This will keep thee from the defile- ments of the times wherein thou liven In the 1 t 9 Pf: Bleffed are the undefiled in the way, they wall¿, in the law of the Lard : It's á bleffed thing to be undefiled in our way , that . is, when we live in the world and can keep our felves clean fed from the pollutionsof the world, unfrosted in the world, can hive 'our hearts clean: There be very few of ushath done fo, but whenwe look back to the times wherein we liv'd be fore, the times wherein there were fo great temptations to that that was evil : Where's the man or woman but doth fee caufe to lainent the defilements of their confciences, and of their hearts by the pollutions of the times wherein they liv'd We have fallyed our felves by fupertlici ©us vanities here- tofore, and not only in our actions have been defiled, but in our very confciences, and juft it were with the Lordthat we should never come to fee the good Land that he is bringing his people unto, becaufe we have fo fallyed our felves by the fuperftitious vanities of the times Wherein we liv'd; How hap - py is the man or woman that liv'd in former times wherein' there fo many pollutions, that yet kept themfelves undefiled in their way : I loft more it may be then others did, yet I kept my heart and confcience clean,and this is that that is the com- fort of my foul : Bleffed are fuch, the bieffing of God is upon them, and Mall certainly be upon'them in a gloriousmanner4 SERMON
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