Gospel-love, heart-purity, and the flourishing of the righteous being the last sermon of the…

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 ⟨p. 48⟩any goodness in it: and therefore saith he only evil. Nor was it in this impure state, only for a fit, or now and then: but saith the Text, Continually evil; or as the Hebrew is, every day. Day by day, which we render Continually. So that now the made pure heart was lost; and no man hath a pure heart by nature; nor hath any man a heart less impure by nature, than another man hath. Our hearts in nature are all of a make; and that's stark naught. So spake the Prophet Jeremiah likewise in Jer. 17. 10. The heart of man is deceitful above all things. The heart of man is the greatest cheat in the world, and the greatest Impostor in the world: and saith he, 'tis desperately wicked; and 'tis so wicked, that the wickedness of it is beyond Humane Comprehension: The wickedness of it is beyond the knowledge of man who knows it? Neither he that hath the heart, nor any other that se