. 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 . r and the fcrivner haveThe usurers heart in keeping wi:h hio b^nds* ;His fouls dear fuftenance lies in their hands, And if they break, their fhops his intrefl isHis only blifs. money-hoarder in his bagsBinds up his heart, and locks it in his cheft ;,The fame key ferves to that, and to his breaft-^Which of no other heaven brags ;Nor can conceitA joy To great. * Bavds j i. e. bonds of obligation,2 So a8 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 7-So f
. 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 . r and the fcrivner haveThe usurers heart in keeping wi:h hio b^nds* ;His fouls dear fuftenance lies in their hands, And if they break, their fhops his intrefl isHis only blifs. money-hoarder in his bagsBinds up his heart, and locks it in his cheft ;,The fame key ferves to that, and to his breaft-^Which of no other heaven brags ;Nor can conceitA joy To great. * Bavds j i. e. bonds of obligation,2 So a8 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 7-So for the greedy landmonger :The purchafes he makes in evry partTake livery and feifin of his heart:Yet his infatiate hunger^For all his ftore,Gapes after more. 8. Poor wretched muckworms, wipe your eyes^Uncafe thofe trifles that befot you fo:Your rich-appearing wealth is real death in your deiires hearts are whereYou love and fear, 9-Oh think not then the world defervesEither to be belovM or feard by you :Give heaven thefe affections as its due, Which always what it hath prefervcsIn pcrft(St blifsThat endlefs is. The ^mA. (i. ni((rj(.vu ffnctu c/UiTy^ /f/Aet . The OpJJNUVG of th-c IIkAR-T with the S ;J)ftu-Jtt>rcf. f/tn/^(/yf{ti-t//i /ifoft/r/t/it/ttI^ierce^ ny Ife/zrf nith Ifru/tr/.r f^//,o/-f e/n-r/rr . THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 29 The Hardness of the Heart. Zech, vli. 12. They made their hearts as hard as an adamant Jiom^leji they Jhould hear the lazv. Epig. 8. TT^ORDS move the not, nor gifts, mrjlrohst^^ Thyjitirdy adamantine heart provokesMy juftice, flights my mercies : anvil-like,Thoujiandyi unmoved^ though my hammer firths. ODE VHL What have we here ? An heart ? It looks like one^^The fliape and colour fpeak it fuch :But, having brought it to the touehj I find it is no better than a are* Softer by far^ Long hath it ftceped been in Mercys foaked in Salvation,Meet for the alterationOf anvils, to have ma
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