A32052:594
Saints memorials, or, Words fitly spoken, like apples of gold in pictures of silver…
Saints memorials, or, Words fitly spoken, like apples of gold in pictures of silver being a collection of divine sentences / written and delivered by those late reverend and eminent ministers of the gospel, Mr. Edmund Calamy, Mr. Joseph Caryl, Mr. Ralph Venning, Mr. James Janeway.
London : s.n., 1674
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
He also that hath a pure Heart, loves every thing that is pure; and the more pure it is, the more he loves it.
A pure Heart will be full of pure thoughts; a pure Heart converses with God in purity of thoughts.
Whereas the wicked they have not the Pure God, nor the Holy God in all their thoughts.
A pure Heart is full of pure desires; he desires to be more good, to be better; he desires to know more of God, and to honour God more; he desires to enjoy God ⟨p. 72⟩more; he hungers and thirsts after God.
A pure Heart hath pure purposes and pure resolves; and by resolves the Heart is more settled and sixth.