Sibbes - Houston-Packer Collection BX9339.S5 B6 1641

~---B-u.t-myheart waketh• _ _ ____ 11__,5--;--·--r lfJminelthen come to me ? So faith Chrifi,is thine SE~~..nn. God mull have our earts) an t en our an s : heart as mine, then hgi·:e m~ thdyhhand, bhut fidrfi lj A man otherwife is but a Gho!l: in Religion, which soes up and downe without a fpirit of its -owne, but a pieture, that bath an outfide, and is I nothing wirhin. Therefore efpecially, let us looke to our he=uts, oh that there were foch an heart in this people (faith God toUJtt ofes) to flare me alwayes for their good. This is it that Gods .children defire, that their hearts may be aright fet. Wafo thy heart 0 Iertl[alem([aith the Prophet) ftomthy wickednejfe,&c. Indeed all the outward man depends upor. this;therfore Satan,ifhe can get this forc,he isfafe,&fo Satans Vicar. It was a watch-word that was in Gregory 13. his time, in QEliz;rGeths dayes, My (on, give me thy heart, di:ffemble, goe to Church, and doe what you will,butDamihi cor, be in hearc a Papifi,and goe where you will. God is not content with the heart alone (the Devill knowes if he have the heart,he hath all: But God,as he made all; both foule andbody, he will have all )but yet in times of remptation,the chiefe tryall is in the hearr. And from hence;we have a rnaine difference between one Chrifiian and another. A found Chrifl ian cloth what he cloth from the heart, he begins theworke there. \Vhatgood hedoth,he loves iAhis h~art firfi, judgethit to be good, and the·nhe cloth tr. An Hypocrite doth that he cloth outwardly, and all owes notinwardly of that good he d.oth; ht ~--~---------------------- Heb. xr.

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