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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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Secondly, Do you find that according to Scripture rule, you have a pure heart, Then I have a second word to say. Pray do what you can to keep your hearts pure: For they who have pure hearts may quickly find their hearts very impure, unless they look narrowly to it. A heart that is made pure, will be greatly imputed unless we watch, and keep it pure. Solomon hath that expression, in Prov. 4. 23. keep thy heart with all diligence, saith he, For out of it are the Issues of life: keep thy heart, keep it with all diligence, with all manner of keeping; you ⟨p. 77⟩see then, it is not enough to get a pure heart; but we must keep our hearts, and keep them clean. As 'tis in this case with your houses, you do not only make them clean, but you keep them clean: and if a house be made never so clean, yet it will contract defilement. Dust will be upon it, unless it be kept clean, unless it be watched that none throw dirt into it. Indeed we had need in keeping our hearts, to watch them continually: and that's the great business of keeping our hearts, for the Devil if we do not watch our hearts, he will do one of these two things.
Secondly, Do you find that according to Scripture rule, you have a pure heart, Then I have a second word to say. Pray do what you can to keep your hearts pure: For they who have pure hearts may quickly find their hearts very impure, unless they look narrowly to it. A heart that is made pure, will be greatly impured unless we watch, and keep it pure. Solomon hath that expression, in Prov. 4. 23. keep thy heart with all diligence, saith he, For out of it are the Issues of life: keep thy heart, keep it with all diligence, with all manner of keeping; you ⟨p. 77⟩see then, it is not enough to get a pure heart; but we must keep our hearts, and keep them clean. As 'tis in this case with your houses, you do not only make them clean, but you keep them clean: and if a house be made never so clean, yet it will contract defilement. Dust will be upon it, unless it be kept clean, unless it be watcht that none throw dirt into it. Indeed we had need in keeping our hearts, to watch them continually: and that's the great business of keeping our hearts, for the Devil if we do not watch our hearts, he will do one of these two things.