. 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 . s ;It wilLbe hard to fay on whether fideThe bands are furefl, which is faftfr. : i c 134 THE SCHOOL OF THE Prop of the Heart. Pfalm cxii. 7, 8. His heart is fixed^ truftlng In the Lord. His heart is ijlablijhed^ he JJjall not be afraid. Epig. 43. li/jTweak and feeble heart a prop mufl irfe^-* ^ But plcafant fruits andfioivers doth refufe:Aiy Chrift my pillar is; on him refyyRepofe, and rejl m)felf alone will L ODE xuir. Siippofe it true,
. 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 . s ;It wilLbe hard to fay on whether fideThe bands are furefl, which is faftfr. : i c 134 THE SCHOOL OF THE Prop of the Heart. Pfalm cxii. 7, 8. His heart is fixed^ truftlng In the Lord. His heart is ijlablijhed^ he JJjall not be afraid. Epig. 43. li/jTweak and feeble heart a prop mufl irfe^-* ^ But plcafant fruits andfioivers doth refufe:Aiy Chrift my pillar is; on him refyyRepofe, and rejl m)felf alone will L ODE xuir. Siippofe it true, that, whilft thy Saviours iideWas furrowed with fcourges,. he was tyd Unto fome pilhir id^ :Think not, mine heart,, it was becaufe he tEouIdNot fland alone, or that left loofe he would Have fhrunlc away at laft ;Such weaknefs fuits not with Omnipotence,Nor could n:ian^6 malice n^^atch his patience. 2. But, iF fo done, twas done to tutor thee,Whofe fraiity and impatience he doth fee Suchj that thou haft n~;r will, as of thvfelf, to undergo[he leaft d^o^rec of duty,or of woe. But v/owUlt be fuis at len<;th. Ta T5rA3H H £rnl. 4. FrLCRmr Cohdis Christt JFti/rirr Atrr fua rttt Ckristr (7>fuftina .v«/w*. 5!ATF -WT^O JOOHn [ srij ixii THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 135 To flinch or faint, or not to ftand at aFI,Or in the end more fearfully to fall. 3- Thy very frame and figure, broad beneath, apparently doth prove Thou canft not ftand alone^Without a prop to bolfter and to ftay truft to thineovi^n ftrength, 7-^ould foon betray thee. Alas ! thou now art grownSo weak and ieeble, wavering and fhrinkit at the leaft weight thats on thee laid:.. 4- The eafieft commandments thou Jeclineft, \ And at the lighteft panifliinents thou whineft : ■ Thy reftlefs motions are Innumerable, like the troubled fea, : Whofe waves are tofsd and tumbled ev^ry I The hound-purfued hare ■ Makes not To many doubles as thou doil, j Till thy crof
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