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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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Fourthly, A pure heart will be full of pure thoughts, or you will be sure that no impure thoughts shall have any welcome in you; a pure heart converses chiefly with God in purity of thoughts, and good thoughts; as the wicked are described, Psal. 10. to be such as have not God in all their thoughts, they have not the pure God, nor the holy God in all there thoughts, that is, God is not at all in their thoughts to any purpose. So we may say of the pure heart, God ⟨p. 67⟩is in all his thoughts, or he would fain have his thoughts always upon God. And so those that the Lord accounts his Jewels are described, Mal. 13. 16. Saith he, I will deal thus and thus with them that fear me, and that think upon my name. Mark, that think upon my name. A great part of our spiritual purity, is to •he often thinking upon the pure God: The pure heart (I say) is often full of pure thoughts, and you may take measure of the purity of your hearts very much, by considering what your thoughts are. And,
Fourthly, A pure heart will be full of pure thoughts, or you will be sure that no impure thoughts shall have any welcome in you; a pure heart converses chiefly with God in purity of thoughts, and good thoughts; as the wicked are discribed, Psal. 10. to be such as have not God in all their thoughts, they have not the pure God, nor the holy God in all there thoughts, that is, God is not at all in their thoughts to any purpose. So we may say of the pure heart, God ⟨p. 67⟩is in all his thoughts, or he would fain have his thoughts always upon God. And so those that the Lord accounts his Jewels are discribed, Mal. 13. 16. Saith he, I will deal thus and thus with them that fear me, and that think upon my name. Mark, that think upon my name. A great part of our spiritual purity, is to •he often thinking upon the pure God: The pure heart (I say) is often full of pure thoughts, and you may take measure of the purity of your hearts very much, by considering what your thoughts are. And,