Who are the pure in heart
The pure in heart are those whose hearts God has purified even as he is pure (1 John 3:3), who are purified through faith in the blood of Jesus from every unholy affection, who, being cleansed from all filthiness of flesh and spirit (2 Corinthians 7:1), perfect holiness in the loving fear of God. They are, through the power of his grace, purified from pride by the deepest poverty of spirit, from anger and from every unkind or turbulent passion by meekness and gentleness, from every desire except to please and enjoy God, to know and love him more and more, by that hunger and thirst after righteousness which now fills their whole soul, so that now they love the Lord their God with all their heart, and with all their soul and mind and strength (Mark 12:30).
1771 text
2. The pure in heart are they, whose hearts God hath purified even as he is pure; who are purified thro’ faith in the blood of Jesus, from every unholy affection; who being cleansed from all filthiness of flesh and spirit, perfect holiness in the loving fear of God. They are, through the power of his grace, purified from pride, by the deepest poverty of spirit; from anger, from every unkind or turbulent passion, by meekness and gentleness; from every desire but to please and enjoy God, to know and love him more and more, by that hunger and thirst after righteousness, which now engrosses their whole soul: so that now they love the Lord their God, with all their heart, and with all their soul and mind and strength.
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Catalogue & scope
Sermon 23 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 5:8-12.
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