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Thirdly, When the soul is free from the love of any sin, then the soul is Evangelically pure. Indeed sin will hide, sin will stir, and I cannot warrant any man in the world, that is a man of the purest heart in the world, but that his sin may ⟨p. 58⟩possibly give him a foil. But this is certain, he that hath an Evangelical purity, is free from the commanding power of sin, and from that constant, and customary practice of sin; and from the love of sin. A man of a pure heart, may have a special sin, that is, a sin to which he is more inclined than to any other. Sometimes through the constitution of his body, sometimes through his occasions, and in the way of his calling; there are many things which do endanger men to some special sin, now though I say a good man may have a special sin, a sin that he finds his heart most running out after, in which sense David call's some iniquities, his Iniquity, Psal. 111. 23. I have kept my self (saith he) from mine Iniquity, that is, from the Iniquity that did most beset him. A good man then, may have a special sin, which haunts him, which dogs him, and besets him, but yet he hath not a beloved sin; Evangelical ⟨p. 59⟩purity, and the love of sin, cannot consist together, he that hath a pure heart, cannot play with his sin, cannot sport with his sin, cannot take content in thinking of sin, either past, or what may be to come. As they in the Prophet, this day is thus with us, and to morrow shall be more abundant. No, he cannot please himself thus, in reference to any sin. So that I conclude it, the pure heart is freed, (if he be Evangelically freed) from sin in all these notions, and so he is the Person here meant in the text, from whom all holy actions may proceed acceptably to the Lord; and that may serve for the opening of this point, for I intend to dispatch it at this time.

Thirdly, When the soul is free from the love of any sin, then the soul is Evangelically pure. Indeed sin will hide, sin will stirr, and I cannot warrant any man in the world, that is a man of the purest heart in the world, but that his sin may ⟨p. 58⟩possibly give him a foil. But this is certain, he that hath an Evangelical purity, is free from the commanding power of sin, and from that constant, and customary practice of sin; and from the love of sin. A man of a pure heart, may have a special sin, that is, a sin to which he is more inclined than to any other. Sometimes through the constitution of his body, sometimes through his occasions, and in the way of his calling; there are many things which do indanger men to some special sin, now though I say a good man may have a special sin, a sin that he finds his heart most running out after, in which sense David call's some iniquities, his Iniquity, Psal. 111. 23. I have kept my self (saith he) from mine Iniquity, that is, from the Iniquity that did most beset him. A good man then, may have a special sin, which haunts him, which dogs him, and besets him, but yet he hath not a beloved sin; Evangelical