406 ZLfefull `hj;otes. cleanneflè of our hearts : That we might turn faith Daniel from our iniquities, and underf and thy truth : As if he fhould fay, fo long as we live in our iniquities and defile our foules by our iniquities, we fhalbnever be able to underhand thy truth: But when we come to turn f-am our iniquities, then our un- deri }andings will be deer , then we than know God and the things of God in another manner then ever we knew them be- fore : And in the lafl of Dan: V. to. faith the Text, Many fhall be purified and made white, and t: yed, but the wicked fhat° ,do wickedly, and none of the wicked (hall underhand, but the wife than underhand When God purities the heart then he makes them to underhand his wayes, but none of the wicked h;all underfiand Gods mind, their hearts being unclean they can- not come to underhand the mind of od and the things of God : The underhanding of man it hath a Die from the will and the affeC`tions, that look as the will and affeClions are, fo there is I ffy,a Die upon mans undei-ílanding,as it is in the bo- dy,look how the ftomack i,,& the diftemper of divers difeafes .are, fo there is a tincture upon the eye, the eyes of ;men by fome kind, of dieales are mightily tnfefted by ill fumes that do arise from the flomack, fo the eye of the foule is very much infeEted from,the will and from the affedions,as the bo- dy,when there afcends no ill vapors up to the eyes, the eyes are deer and are able to fee, but now in force difeafes where vapors do afcend up to the eyes, the eye is diftempered and fees according to thofe vapors : So if the hearts of men be - clean, then i lees the truths of Cod plainly and cleerly, but if the heart of man be unclean, then it is not able to fee God more the things of God. Secondly, The will of man it bath a great command over the underhanding, the will of man it is able to command the underflanding to work about fuch a work or about another: To turn away from this objet or the other object, fo that if the will of tan, and the affections are clean, then the Will will put the undeCt}anding upon meditating on God, and the things of Gód of faflning the eye upon fpiritual things : But now, If the heart be unclean, then it will turne away the: ttrrder(tas- ding
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