3981 Pkherein a pure laeart is bleffed. pureneffe of Ehir hearts will fo guide them in their wayes, as to fpeake and to behave themfelves in fuck a manner, that hd (hall be convinced in his Confcience, there certainly are up- right..Men, and others that have been about me, they have but flattered me, and deceivd me, and led me into evill wayes, into wayes that have done abundance of mitchiefe in the King- dome , whereby thoufands have been opprefled, and their blood hath been shed: But I fee there walke uprightly, accord- ing s o their Principles ; I find that in one thing as well as in another they walke according to rule, an therefore 1 Will be 'their friend. O let us pray that God would make good this Faulk e. Certainly, if there be any thing in the world w con 'vine, it is a clean:; converfanon out of a cleane heart : Not That Men only pròfeil'e purity more then o_hert, but that they vralke anfwera lv, and-that they manifeft the beauty and the excellency of a clean:, heart in their converfations before men, this will convince any in the world.Men may fpeak ill ofthem, and cry out of them,and fay they are hypocrites: Well,let the World freak like the wo ld, let them speak acco. ding to-their ovine skill, as they have in th; wiyes of Religion: Doe thou gne on in the wayes of holineffe ltill in a conftant way, and let there be an evenneffe in thy converfation in one thing as well as anon her manifefl the purity of thy heart, and at length their Ccnfciences will tell them , that thy wayes are better then theirs ; Thou wì1: be honourable, in the very Confciences of thofe that have c ryed out againft thee ; It is a mighty Convin- cing thing urity ofheart, when it chines forth in the life and Converfation. Fifthly, Againe, Blefed are the pure; For all things are pure to them ; Tit: i. t ç. Veto the pure all things are pure ; but 'onto them that are defiled and unbelieving, is v- thing'pure; but `even their mind and Co: fcience is defiled. O thou haft a fan&i- fied ufe of every thing,hath i,,od fano`tified thy heart,and doeft thou endeavour to fan&iiìe the nime ofGod in all thy wayes,, know that all things are fanai ied to thee ; And this one word it's worth a kinwdome,worth a world,That all thing .1bould be made pure to thofe that are cleane; And this the Lord faith, that
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