r------ The rexation of the Spirit. and drudgeth for them, andbringeth his heart to-the edge of the creature: for the world doth not wound the heart, but the heart woundeth it felfé upon the world. As it is not the rock alone that dafheth the fhip, without its owne motion being firft toffed by the wind and waves upon the rock ; fo it is a mans owne lull which vexeth his fvirit, and not the this. gs alone which he poffeffeth. To let the heart on the Creature denotes three things ; Firf} to pitch a mans thoughts and fludies, to dire&t all the reIlleffe enquiries of his foule upon them, and the good he expe ss from them. This in the Scripture is ex- preffed by a Deviling, ` Confulting, c Thinlcrng within ones felfe, being toffed like a d °Meteor with doubtful - neffe of minde and carefull fufpence, c Joyning ones felfe, making f Provifon for Iulls, &c. Secondly, to care for, to employ amans affcdions of love, delight, dcfire upon them, to fet a high price on them, and over -rate them above other things. For this caufe covetous men are called g Idolaters, becaufe they preferre money, as a man doth his God, before all other things. When the wo- men would have comforted the wife of `I'hineas with the birth of a fon,after the captivity of theArke, it isfaid, The regarded it not, The Text is, Thee did nor put her heart upon it c though a woman rejoyce when a man-child is borne, yet in comparifon of the Arke Thee nomore regarded the joy of a Tonne, than a man would doe if the Sunne fliould be blotted out of heaven, and a little Starre put in the roome; and therefore, though children bee thc glory of their:parents,`yet fheeprofeffoth that there was no glory in this to have .a Tonne, and lofe an Arke; a Starre with - out light, a , fonne without fervice, a Levite borne,and no Arke .to wait upon .; and therefore thee did not fet hct heart upon it. They will not fet their heart upon ua, ray the people to David, for thou art worth ten thoufand of us:; that is, they will no whit regard us in comparifon of thee: fo then a mans heart is fet on the Creature, when H a be Yee vulnus ad- atit dehetur gladi %, perci f (ram eft pea£r'e /ernia. Luc. 4 MiC, 3.1. G iab.zco. ç Luk.lz,r 7,18 d ! Like 12. 29. pA ué jsa,i p.as e Hof 4 17. fRom. 13. 14. g EpheCS.y' CQ1.3.5. r Sarn.4.to. [oh. Hof.9.,r< z Sam.18.3.ï
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