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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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He will either steal away our heart: for the Devil comes a heart-stealing continually; and especially when you are at a Sermon, or a holy duty; and if he can but steal away your hearts, he cares not how many Bodies there are here.
Or he will be throwing dirt into your hearts, suggesting wickedness: He will throw dirt into the inner closet of your hearts, by his Temptations, by his Injections. Therefore if you would keep your hearts clean, you must watch them.
I, and you must often wash your hearts, if you would keep them clean; for your hearts will contract filth, do what you can, unless they are daily washed, and duly searched.
I, and you must often wash your hearts, if you would keep them clean; for your hearts will contract filth, do what you can, unless they are daily washt, and duly searcht.
As it is with a Garden, let a Garden be dressed, and made very exact, so that there is not any thing amiss, not a Weed to be seen in it: I, but the Garden must be kept thus, or else in a little time it will be over-run with Weeds again. It is so in our hearts: Suppose we have weeded out this, and that, and the other evil, if we do not keep a continual care of our hearts, the Weeds will grow again; and therefore our hearts must be continually