. The school of the heart, or, The heart (of itself gone away from God) brought back again to Him, and instructed by Him : in forty-seven emblems . e ftirrd, and turnd, not once, but it have all its feafons. O impartThe beft of all thine art:For of itfelf it is fo will be but Or, if it be thy willTo te?.ch me, let me learn the fklllMyfelf to plow mine heart :The profit will be mine, and tis my partTo take the pains, and labour, though thincrcafeWithout thy blefling ceafe :If fit for nothing elTe, )et thou!M*iyil make me draw thy plough: Which 8S; THE SCHOOL OP TH£ HE
. The school of the heart, or, The heart (of itself gone away from God) brought back again to Him, and instructed by Him : in forty-seven emblems . e ftirrd, and turnd, not once, but it have all its feafons. O impartThe beft of all thine art:For of itfelf it is fo will be but Or, if it be thy willTo te?.ch me, let me learn the fklllMyfelf to plow mine heart :The profit will be mine, and tis my partTo take the pains, and labour, though thincrcafeWithout thy blefling ceafe :If fit for nothing elTe, )et thou!M*iyil make me draw thy plough: Which 8S; THE SCHOOL OP TH£ HEART. Which of thy ploughs thou thou haft more than one. My wrath, thy rods, are allPloughs fit to tear mine heart to pieces fmall :And when, in thefe, it apprehends thee near,^Tis furrowed with fear :Each weed, turnd under^ hides its ihews as it were dead. But, Lord, thy ble/Ted pafBonIs a plough of another falhion^Belter than all the faftcn me to that, and let the reftOf all my powers ftrive to draw it leave no room for virtue of thy death can makeSin its faft hold foiiakc. 71ie JJift/.-jtV. SiiMTNATio rx C on. Sernffift Ja/n lerrtr nttim/a 7)/i//// O/rnr . The SEEDING of the ^th thirte enm hand. OZard, njCTf^e^Jthe fJrmind,Zest this t^le Heart f^ sti/f larfriutfiif /riirni. --^ . I THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 8$ The Seeding of the Heart. Luke viii. 15. That on the good ground are they^ which, with an honejiand good hearty having heard the. wordj keep it^ and^bring forth fruit with patience. E !» I 0. 28. T EST the field of mine heart Jhould unto thee^•*- Great Hujhandman that made^Ji it, barren be§.Manure the groundy then come thy [elf and feed it \And kt thyfervants water it and weed it* Nay, blefled Lord,.Unlefs thou wilt affordManure, as well as tillage, to thy fielcf. It will not yield •.That fruit which thou expe£ieft it fhould bear; The ground, I fear, WiU ftiU remain Barren of wjiat is good : and all the gr
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