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How
the
heart
may
be
clean
-
fed.
Proceed
in
cleanfing
the
life.
Cleaneperfons,
types
ofCrr.
inward purity
firff.
For
i
.
Whence
iffue
thefe
but
.
from
a
wicked
and
impenitent
heart?
2.
God looker
firft
at
the
cleanneffe
of
the
heart, knowing that
if
hee
find
that
uncleane
nothing
is
cleane.
3.
Morality and
'
cleanlineffe
make
a
man
care for
the
cleanneffe
of
his
face,
but
grace and
religion
muff make
him looke to
the
cleanneffe
of
his
heart,Ier.4.14.
Becaufe
he
knowes that
no beauty
of
the
face can
allure
a
man
fo
much
,
as
the
cleanneffe
of
heart allureth.
4.
Get
grace
into
thy
heart,
and
it cannot choofe
but
fend
out,
as
Chrift
faith,
According
to
that
which
is
within.
According to the abun-
dance
of
the
heart
the
mouth will
fpeake
,
the
eye
will
Tooke,
the hand will worke,
the foot
will walke.
Get
thy
heart purged
and
wafhed,
and
it
is
itnpoffible
that
thy
life
fhould
be
foule.
5.
In
vaine
do
men
(tingle
and
Rrive
to
call
offfome waft boughs
of
finfull
a6tions,
ifthey
feeke
not
to
ftrike
up
the roote.
Thou
wouldfl
avoyd oathes and lyes
in
thy tongue,
but
fhalt never
doe
it
while
thou
haft
a
fwearing
and lying
heart.
Thou
wouldfl
avoid
fornication and
adultery
in
the
ac`t,
in
the
eye,
in
the
fpeech, but
never
fhalt thou
flop
this
iffue,
if
thou
haft
an adulterous
heart:
And
fo
in
other
finnes.
iefß.
How
may I
cleanfemy
heart
?
.fin
/w.Cleanneffe
of
heart
is
in
two
things.
1.
Jafli-
fication
by
the blood
of
Chrifl
imputed
and
applyed,
M.15.8.1
o.
2.
Sanctification by
the fpirit, which
Rands
in
two
things.
z.
In
parting
with
our
filthi-
nelle,
as
evill
thoughts, pride,
hypocrifìe,
Rubbornneffe,
malice
:
in
a
mortification ofall inward
lufts,
2.
In
attaining
a
new
eflate
in all
the
inward
faculties,
a
plan-
ting
and
cherifhing
of
all
graces.
Thus (as
our
Saviour
faith)he
that
is
wafhed
is
all
eleane.
I
I.
Direaion.
From
the
foundation come to
the
flrears:If
the heart
at
any
time
be inflamed
with
the
I
fire ofconcupifcence, and begin
to
boyle
over,
flay
the
ifrue
with
all
expedition.
Jweft.