Heywood - Houston-Packer Collection BV4510.A2 H49 1667

. / 7' I lleart-7reafote.' allett the fame: 'Tis buta fond and ftolick .s:– fientation, to invite:a friend to dinhet, when nothing is prepared : It's a mocking ·of God to bring Cain's Sacrifice, a body without ~ui heart, a carkaffe "''ithout ·Spirit ;:i't's· as it a _ Jew hadbrought the skin ofa: beaft f0rSacti· fice and no more : But where the creafure is in the Heart~ there the dfentials of the Service are made up, the work is filled up,· or .comnEJt~"; .. pleat bef@re <;lod! Refl. 3• 2.- i. .e.· it is ll<?C eGJfA.EV«. la~eor defechve U1 any CQnfiderable c:onfh· tuttve part thereof j 'Tis fudt as m·ay bee'" . tr~ely ~alled a real good work. Tl;is ·isthe . chtef thtng that God expetl:s ; add 1f agood Heart be want~ng, the Work is ·as undone fiill ~ ·But a fincere Chrifliail findes his pray • _ er in his Heart, which hee ptters with his Lips, 2 S~tm. 7. 27· Thy Ser1;d.nt bath fottnd in hfs het~rt to prttJ thi4 Prayer;- He fouad it not 0nely in his Book, but in his I-leart; ·he f~ccheth his Prayer from a Treafure ·: Such aman wit pray,a prayer, Eas David here) andnot onely faya prayer, tbat findes ir in his Hcarr; What cares God for a little Lip.-labour: Hee !pay fay, Who rcqf4ired th~fe things at yeur hPindJ? · Did I not reqe~ire th(m ofyour hei~irtS ?. .A moci: ..- ' . FeJ~ft or Faft JP ill not content me ; I Jhall not be put ~if with an empt} {hew; I will have your hearts, or ~othing j d.nd I muft have a Trear t41-C' in your hearts, dr all yo• bring u worth.nothing,. The truth is, God , cakes principal pot.ice .0f rhe , . heart, and ob(erves bow that a~lnds affe&ed: ~~ek. l4,o< If Idols be (~t up in ' the bean, God takcs110 Ji 4'Q notke ~i a peoples prayers: Therefore ,. we 1,.., ~ ,_Ji (,,~U'

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