Sacr.IX. ofConverfon,or ranting unto God. 481 at*It***Ktil, SERMON LXXX, :kti.our tutting to Clodmu/ be with thewhole .èart; Wherein HeartyConverfon con10s, with theeffeds ofit. OP L. 2. 12. lionye, eventome,, with all your heart, Heobjed,orterm.to which of our Converfmnbath been difpatched, we _come to the mannerhow we muff turn to.God, and that is, With all thy beast: God dothnot fayonely, as in another place, givemethy heart, but all thy heart, Prov, 23. 26, The Scripture doch for themoth part make the heart the feat of therational foul;as ifall underlanding, reafon, and affel'dons were placed there, and herein itdothcontradift the opinionofmoll eminent Philofophers, who make the brain or theheád,the feat of the rational foul;nowfome learned men think that therefore the Scripture makes the allions of the foul to flow from the heart, .becaufe God docks notmake any account of meer fpeculative,or brains, knowledge; butas it is accompanied withthe throng affelions, andmotions ofthe heartwhich .put a man upon practice. e4rifiot/e oblerveth that look diffolute practices, do not corrupt thehabitsoftoter fpeculative(ciences, as the Mathematiques,rJc, but they doquickly deflroy práftícal habits, a, prudence and the abilitie to guideand govern ouraftions. Now the end ofthe Scripture being wholly to make us good, and to reform our lives,which cannotbe done without the vigorous and ftrong aff':c`tions of the heart, doch therefore attribute all to this, in fo much that a goodheart, or a bad heart,are made the good or bad treafuryofa man. So then howfoever in tome placesofScripture, vlaat. 22, heart is oppofed to minde,and to foul,and (freogth, yet when it is put alone, as here, then it (hands forail theft, and in this (mile we are toundetlland it , 77urnto Godwith all thywinde, thy foul, thy might, with all thy heare. ObG Thar me are to turnfrom ourfin;, even to god, with all our heart, This 05.f. tWholeheart] is but two words,but hath very great matter and confequence in f tc : fora man to mourn for fin, to Peek to God externally only, or with his whole heart, differ as much asapifture and a live man , as real burning fire, and painted: To leave fin unwillingly, as Phanieddid his wife; to turn toGod with a deceit full heart, is veryabhominable, If a falfe balance be to abominable unto him, How much more mull falfe and deceitful , or heartle(fe convetfions? Butthis facrifice lothnot fo much need an exalt diviflon, or cutting ofit, as to be burnt, or offered up in the flamesofour a:feftion What it is tb Let us therefore confider, Firth what it is to torn to God with the whole heart, w'¡ z c d and then the confequentsoffuch a total converfion, And Firti, To turn to Çodwith the Wholeheart, it when We doNot referee anypert wholeahzat' thereoffor any fn, when we offerúp our felves an whole burnt offering, and not like thofe Sacrifices whereGod had but part, andothers they had part a incha cons vetfion
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