Sibbes - Houston-Packer Collection BX9339.S5 B6 1641

to6 SBa. IIII. tttttltttlltt • -~~w~~~~,~~~~~~W.~~~ The fourth Sermon. · I . CANT. v. VER. IT. I jleep}utmy heart wakes,&c. He words as it hath been lhewed ~~ containeaconfeJion, l jleep, and~ correc1ion, my heart waketh. The confdlion bathbeenhandled,now r.a.u.~~~t fomething of th.e correCtion, Ior exception. t.711y he11rt 'A'ttketh. Theword heart you know includes the whole foule, fort heunderflandingis the heart, anunder– ! Jt,mdi!Jg heart. To lay things up in our hearts, !there it is mem~ry, and to cleave in heart is to Icleave in wiU. To rejoyce in heart, that is, in the 1Ajfec1ion, fo that all the powers ofthe foule, the linward man (as ParJl calleth it) is the heart. \ Ijleep,but my heart waketh. . Indeed,the Church might have faid, my h~Jrt fleepeth,butmy heartwaketh j for it is the fame faculty, theL1me power offhefoule, both in the· fl:ate of corruption, and of grace, in which the foul~ is, as in the twy~light, we cannot fay,this is light, "

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