442 application of the Poynt. And if you would be pure in your hearts , be pure in your thoughts. Math: 15. 19, zo. Out of the heart comes evil! thirds that doe defile the man; And the firft of . all are un- cleane thoughts ;Out of the heart proceed evill thoughts, mur- ders, adulteries, &c. Take heed of defiling your hearts with uncleane thoughts, if you would lee God with Comfort; and take heed of Interefling year felves in any bufineffe any fur- ther then you can fee God goe before you. If a man once be got into a bufineffe , O if things. doe not goe according to his, defire , how will he fhift up and downe and defile himfelfe , aboundance of by-wayes he will have to shift for himfelfe , O take heed of that : And take heed of a fen - ftrall life,labour to live above fençe,when men and women have fenfuall lives, are earthly, and they muff have creature-Com- forts here,, O they de :le themfelves every day exceedingly. No marvaile though worldlings, and uncleanewretches know fo little of God , and have fuch poore low thoughts of God, O they doe defile their foules fo as they cannot fee God ; la- bour to keep your felves clean And y©u that have through, the mercy of God had your Confciences and Soules purified ; keep your foules RI pure, and labour for more and more puri- ty,upon this ground,becaufe you may more and more fee God; Is it not Comfortable to fee the face of Cod : Light is Com- fortable, Ecclef: t 1. 7. O how Comfortable is it to fee God, therefore cleanfe your foules more and more And Itlrove this priviledge of) our eye-fight ; Improve ír; what dorh. Je -. fus Quiff promife that you fhall fee God, 'and is this the blef- fing pomifed to you , why then Inprove it, make ufe of it, and fet your eyes. upon God while you live in this world ; and make it your work to Contetnplre upon God. Many, even Ch; iilians,they live as if there were no blellìng in feeing _; od, but if there be fuch a blefling, then why are not your thoughts more upon Cod then, they are ? Every time you fee God 'n his creatures, you fliould even gaze upon the Glory of (.'od, O this is my God ;And when you look into his Word, and come to his Ordinances, and worfhip him, why de not you fix your hearts and eyes upon him ? A Chriflian that fixes his eye upon God,
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