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

First, 'tis most sure that many think they have pure hearts, and have them not. Solomon hath an expression; saith he, there are a Generation that are pure in their own own eyes, and yet are not cleansed from their wickedness, Chap. 30. 12. It's an easy matter to be pure in our own eyes, and yet remain altogether unclean? A Generation pure in their own eyes. And St. Augustin speaks of a sort of people; who would needs be called Catharists, and (saith he) they do call themselves so, they most proudly, and odiously call themselves, the pure ones. But according to his discovery of them, they were not cleansed from their wickedness; ⟨p. 61⟩and how many are thus indeed, clean in their own eyes, and yet are unclean. And,

First, 'tis most sure that many think they have pure hearts, and have them not. Solomon hath an expression; saith he, there are a Generation that are pure in their own own eyes, and yet are not cleansed from their wickedness, Chap. 30. 12. It's an easie matter to be pure in our own eyes, and yet remain altogether unclean? A Generation pure in their own eyes. And St. Augustin speaks of a sort of people; who would needs be called Cathorists, and (saith he) they do call themselves so, they most proudly, and odiously call themselves, the pure ones. But according to his discovery of them, they were not cleansed from their wickedness; ⟨p. 61⟩and how many are thus indeed, clean in their own eyes, and yet are unclean. And,

Secondly, There are many that are clean, not only in their own eyes, but in the eyes of other men, yea possibly in very good men, Godly men, clean in their eyes, and yet for all this, they are not cleansed from their filthiness. Our Lord Jesus Christ detecting the hypocrisy of the Pharisees, saith, that they were like whited sepulchres, which appear fair to men, but within are full of dead mens bones, and rottenness. Thus it is with many, very many in the world, they appear very beautiful, like a brave sepulchre, painted, and gilded, have possibly a very pure hand, you can see no evil they do; they have possibly a very pure Tongue, you can hear of no evil they speak. Speak even as they in