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Gospel-love, heart-purity, and the flourishing of the righteous being the last sermon of the…
Gospel-love, heart-purity, and the flourishing of the righteous being the last sermon of the late reverend Mr. Joseph Caryl.
London : Printed and are to be sold by John Hancock Senior and Junior, 1675
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And the heart as to purity, may be considered two ways,
And the heart as to purity, may be considered two wayes,
First, As Made,
Secondly, As Re-made.
The heart of man as made, was pure; I mean, in its primitive Constitution. So Adam had a pure heart; his understanding pure, his will pure, his affections pure. God made him upright; but he lost his pure heart, or the purity of his heart. Sin did impure his whole inner man; and he being our Representative, ⟨p. 47⟩lost purity of heart, not only for himself, but for us. All mankind lost that made purity of heart when Adam fell. And therefore the very first Complaint which the Lord made of the Fallen World, was concerning the pravity and impurity of their hearts, in Gen. 6. 5. God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, [that's wickedness of Life,] and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. By this we see to purpose, That the first made purity of the heart was lost. Here are so many particulars setting forth the evil of mans heart, as plainly shows, that it is nothing but evil. Here's the evil of his Imaginations, The Imagination of the Thoughts of his heart. And not here and there one, but every imagination of the thoughts of his heart, it was evil. And not evil with some mixture of good, but purely evil. It was evil without