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

Seventhly, He that hath this pure heart, certainly hath pure ends in all that he doth, He hath a holy Aim, he hath a single eye, this is a great evidence of a pure heart, when we have pure Aims, Christ calls that the single eye, Matth. 6. 23. If thine eye be single, that is, If thy ends, and Aims, that which thou lookest at, If they are single, sincere, pu•e, the whole body shall be full of light. A pure heart, the ends that he ⟨p. 71⟩proposes, are not self, not self-profit, not self-applause, not pleasure; But he purposes the profit of many that they may be saved, of the good of all with whom he converses. He proposes these great ends, which he carries quite through all unto the end. And that is, that he may exalt the name of the Lord by all. O look to your ends, the purity of your hearts, will appear in the purity of your Aims, and of your ends: and so much for that first thing, for conviction, and discovery about this purity of heart.

Seventhly, He that hath this pure heart, certainly hath pure ends in all that he doth, He hath a holy Aim, he hath a single eye, this is a great evidence of a pure heart, when we have pure Aims, Christ calls that the single eye, Matth. 6. 23. If thine eye be single, that is, If thy ends, and Aims, that which thou lookest at, If they are single, sincere, pu•e, the whole body shall be full of light. A pure heart, the ends that he ⟨p. 71⟩proposes, are not self, not selfprofit, not self-applause, not pleasure; But he purposes the profit of many that they may be saved, of the good of all with whom he converses. He proposes these great ends, which he carries quite through all unto the end. And that is, that he may exalt the name of the Lord by all. O look to your ends, the purity of your hearts, will appear in the purity of your Aims, and of your ends: and so much for that first thing, for conviction, and discovery about this purity of heart.