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THE SCHOOL 
 
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 THE HE A R..T€- 
 
J00HD8 3HT 
 
 T il A a H SLU T 
 
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THE SCHOOL 
 
 O F 
 
 THE HEART: 
 
 O R, 
 
 THE HEART 
 
 (or ITSEtr •0N£ AWAV FROM GOD) 
 
 BROUGHT BACK AGAIN TO HIM, 
 AND INSTRUCTED BY HIM. 
 
 IN FORTY-SEVEN EMBLEMS. 
 BY THE AUTHOR OF THE SYNAGOGUE, 
 
 ANNEXED TO HERBERT'S POEMS. 
 WHEREUNTO IS ADDED, 
 
 THE LEARNING OF THE HEART, 
 
 BY THE SAME HAND. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 fRIN'TED AND SOLD BY H. TRAPP, K; h 
 
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THE CONTENTS 
 
 TO EACH 
 
 O D E. 
 
 TH E Infeaion of the Heart, • Page 3 
 The Taking away of the Hearty • 1 1 
 
 The Darknefs of the Heart, « « ^4 
 
 The Abfence of the Heart, - "^ If 
 
 The Vanity of the Heart, • •» 20 
 
 The Oppremon of the Heart, * 2^ 
 
 The Covetoufnefs ©f the Heart, • 26 
 
 The Hardnefs of the Heart, ^ 2^ 
 
 The Divillon of the Heart, * " 3^ 
 
 The Infatiablenefs of the Heart, « 35 
 
 The Returning of the Heart, . . 38 
 
 The Pouring out of the Heart, • 4I 
 
 The Circumeifion of the Heart, * * 44^ 
 
 The Contrition of the Heart, • "47 
 
 The Humiliation of the Heart • 50 
 
 The Softening of the Heart, • • ^^ 
 
 The Cleanfrng of the Heart, * 56 
 
 The Grieving of the Heart, • • ^g 
 
 The Sacrifice of the Heart, • 62 
 
 The Weighing of the Heart, • • 65 
 
 The Trying of the Heart, - ■ 68 
 
 The Sounding of the Heart, » • yi 
 
 The Levelling of the Heart, 5 a 74 
 
 3 The 
 
THE CONTENTS. 
 
 The Renewing of the Heart, - Page 77 
 
 The Enlightening of the Heart, - So 
 
 The Table of the Heart, - - 83 
 
 The Tilling of the Heart, "' .^J ! LV r ^TT:^^ 
 
 The Seeding of the Heart. > > - 8q 
 
 The Watering 'of the Heart^ ^ Z ^ 92 
 
 The Flowers of the Heart, - - 95 
 
 7'he Keeping of the Heart, - - 9B 
 
 The Watching of the Heart, - lol 
 
 The Wounding of the Heart, - - 104 
 
 I'he Inhabiting of the Heart, - - 107 
 
 The Enhiro;inf>; of the Heart, - IIO 
 
 The Inilammg of the Heart, - - 1 1 3 
 
 The Ladder of the Heart, - - 116 
 
 The Flying of the Heart, - -119 
 
 The Union of the Heart, - - I2Z 
 
 The Reft of the Heart, - - 125 
 
 The Bathing of the Heart, - ' ^- 128 
 
 1 he Bhidi ng of the Heart, - . • 131 
 
 Th^ Prop of the Heart, - - 134 
 
 7'he Scourging of the Heart, - ^^ •^a^G^.W? 
 
 The Hedging of the Heart, - " % 'l4Ji 
 
 The Faftening of the Heart, - - * 143 
 
 The New Wine of the Heart, - 149 
 
 The Learning of the Heart, - - - 146 
 The Grammar of the Heart, - - 152 
 
 The Rhetoric of the Heart, - ' I55 
 
 The Logic of the Heart, - • 158 
 
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 IT is generally agreed, by the learned and the fe- 
 rious, that felf-knowledge is the great knowledge z 
 and that an adept in univerfal fcience, if he remain 
 a Granger to himfelf, is only a lump of pride ?^nd 
 conceit, and unfit for, not to fay an offence to, aic 
 fqciety of his fellow-men » 
 
 . Self-knowledge is the knowledge of wpt a. 
 man really /;, confider'd in every relation in wliniihe 
 fiands, as a moral agent^ as welXas 2ip.£re^,qref^tu^^y 
 And it is to be prefumed, that this v, ^.> the meaning^ 
 
cf that rena^vned precept; of, the. Py-thian. Apollo^ 
 '■y^Q^^,.X^\^{\xip.;\KnQ^4^^^^ Though it is im- 
 poflible for a man to know himlelf, without being 
 acquainted with a fubje(Sl which is full of mortifi<?a- 
 tion to h;mnan. pri^e and vanily^ 
 
 We hear much talk, in modern times, though 
 there never was, perhaps, Tefs reafon totaik, o£ 
 ibe dignity of human nature. Human nature, in its 
 criginal ilate, no doubt,' was crowned with dignity 
 and glory toa. But alas ! how is it n4vsr fallen ! 
 how is the gold become dim ! how is the moft fine^ 
 gold changed ! For, fmce the fall of man, there has 
 been no true dignity in human natureybut as it was^ 
 beheld in Him, in whom was fecn *' the glory as^ 
 cf the only begotten of the: Father j full of ^r^^. and 
 truth:' ■ ■ ' ' - 
 
 The fiate ofthejnrjind, br h^Aut, may befard. ta 
 determine the ftate and chara£ler of man. As it is, 
 fo. is: J^£, J^p^^ (.{^e fatred writings every -where re- 
 prefent the heart as the fqat of true religion, moral 
 excellence, or virtue; which are in truth one and. 
 the fame; for there can be no virtue^ where there is 
 not true-religion. But fuch is. thr wretched ftate of 
 
 every 
 
every he^Tthy nature, that i?, while deftitute of 
 divine and fpecial grace, that, as no contemptible 
 writer obferves, 
 
 «' Heav'n's Sov'rcigii faves all beings but himfelf— 
 ** That hiJeous fight, a nahd human hearts^* 
 
 The pride and ignorance of mankind may lead 
 them to reajon agalnft this humbling^ and, what they 
 are pleafe to term,, gloomy reprefentation of things. 
 But how abfurd to reafon againflftubborn facft ! We 
 appeal to ihat^ and to experience. We appeal to r-ea^ 
 fin^ as well as to revelation : and both, we are per- 
 fuaded, will tell us, that rhofe, who prate about the- 
 dignity of human nature and its moral excellence, 
 until it be renewed after the image of God, which' 
 Sn has obliterated, are only indulging the pleafures 
 of imagifi/jtion, and need much inftrudlion in — 
 IHE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 
 
 The- following pages bear th lis title : and as they 
 arexlefigned to piefent us with the anatomy of thc^ 
 h^iman; heart in a moral or fpiritual view, to expofe 
 ks.diforders, their nature, and their cure ', it is hoped 
 ihsy may. prove -of no little fervice to the beft in- ' 
 2 2 tercfts 
 
•erefts of mankind. For, as felf-deceit, in matters of 
 eternal concern, is likely to prove our ruin, fo, 
 
 •* To know ourfelves difeas'd, is half our cure." 
 
 Lower C. De Cgetlogon, 
 
 Grofvenor-Pkce, 
 
 
 THE 
 
Fidefauo coronnt ad Ar«s 
 
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 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART, 
 
 1 N T R O D U C TI O N. 
 
 TURN in, my minJ, wander not abroad : • 
 Here's work enough at home ; lay by that load 
 Of fcatter'd thought, that clogs and cumbers thee ; 
 Refame thy long- neglected liberty 
 Of felf-examinatron : bend thine eye 
 Inward; confider where thy heart doth lie. 
 How 'tis afFedled, how 'tis buiy'd : look 
 What thou haft writ thyfelf in thine own book:, 
 Thy confcience : here fet thou thyfelf to fchool ; 
 Self-knowkdge, 'twixt a wife man and a fool. 
 Doth make the difference ; he that negledts 
 This learning, fideth with his own defects. 
 Doft thou draw back ? Hath cuftom charm'd thee {o^ 
 That thou canft relife nothing but thy woe ? 
 Find'fl thou fuch fweetnefs in thefe fugar'd lyes ? 
 Have foreign objects fo ingrofs'd thine eyes ? 
 Canft thou not hold them off f Haft thou an ear 
 -To liften, but to v/hat thou fhouldft not hear ? 
 Art thou incapable of every thing. 
 But what thy fenfes to thy fancy bring ? 
 Remember that thy birth and conftitution 
 Both promife better than fuch bafe confufion. 
 Thy birth's divine, from heav'n ; thy compofure 
 Is fpirit,, and immortal : thine inclofure 
 
 In 
 
6 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 
 
 In walls of flefh ; not to make thee debtor 
 
 For houfe-room to them, but to make them better: 
 
 Thy body's thy freehold, live then as lord. 
 
 Not tenant to thy own : fome time afford 
 
 To view what flate 'tis in : furvey each part. 
 
 And, above all, take notice of thine heart. 
 
 Such as that is, the reft is, or will be, 
 
 Better or worfe, blame- worthy, or fault- free. 
 
 What ! are the ruins fuch, thou art afraid^ 
 
 Or elfe afliame'd, to fee how 'tis decay'd ? 
 
 Is't therefore thou art loth to fee it fuch 
 
 As now it is, becaufe it is fo much ; 
 
 Degenerated now from what it was, 
 
 And fliould have been ? Thine ignorance, alas ! 
 
 Will make it nothing better j and the longer 
 
 Evils are fuffer'd grow, they grow the ftronger : 
 
 Or hath thine underftanding loft its light? 
 
 Hath the dark night of error dinim'd thy fight. 
 
 So that thou canft not, tho' thou wouldft, obferve 
 
 All things amifs within thee, how they fwerve 
 
 From the ftrait rules of righteoufnefs and reafon ? 
 
 If fo, omit not then this precious feafon : 
 
 'Tis yet fchool-time j as yet the door's not fhut. 
 
 Hark how the Maftcr calls. Come, let us put 
 
 Up our requefts to him, whofe will alone 
 
 Limits his pow'r of teaching, from whom none 
 
 Returns unlearned, that hath once a will 
 
 To be his fcholar, and implore his (kill. 
 
 Great Searcher of the heart, whofe boundlefs fight 
 
 Difcovers fecrets, and doth bring to light 
 
 The hidden things of daiknefs, who alone 
 
 PcrfcdtW know'ft all things that can be known ; 
 
 Thou know'ft I do not, cannot, have no mind 
 
 To know mine heart : 1 am not only blind. 
 
 Bat 
 
THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 7 
 
 But lame, and liftlefs : thou alone canft make 
 Me able, willing : and the pains I take. 
 As well as the fuccefs, muft come from thee, 
 Who workeft both to will and do in me : 
 Having made me now willing^ to be taught. 
 Make me as willing to learn what I ought. 
 Or, if thou wilt allow thy fcholar leave 
 To choofe his lefTon, left I ihould deceive 
 Myfelf again, as I have done too often. 
 Teach me to know my heart. Thou, thou canft foften. 
 Lighten, enliven, purify, reftore. 
 And make more fruitful than it was before, 
 Its hardnefs, darknefs, death, uncleannefs, lofs. 
 And barrennefs : refine it from the drofs. 
 And draw out all the dregs, heal ev'ry fore. 
 Teach it to know itfelf, and love thee more. 
 Lord, if thou wilt, thou canft impart this fkill i 
 And as for other learning, take't v/ho wilL 
 
 Th« 
 
S THE SCHOOL OF THE HEARt. 
 The Infection of the Heart. 
 
 Ads V. 3. 
 
 . Why hath Satan filled ihi7u heart F 
 
 Epic. i. 
 
 jrr.HIL S T thou inelhieyi thy voice- inveigled e^'^\ 
 ry <j'Ijp fubtil ferpent's fijren-Jongs to hcar^ 
 V^hy heart drinks deadly poifon draivn from hell^ 
 And with a vipWous brood of fin doth fiwell.^ 
 
 ODE 1. 
 
 The SouL I. 
 
 Profit and pleafure, comfort, and content, 
 Wifdom, and honor ; and, when thefe are fpent, 
 A frefh fupply of more ! Oh heav'nly words ! 
 Are thefe the dainty frufts that this fair tree affordj ? 
 
 The Serpent. 2. 
 
 Yes, thefe and many more, if more may be. 
 All that the world contains, in this one tree 
 Contradled is. Take but a .tafte, and try ; 
 Thou may'fl believe thyfelf, experience cannot Ive. 
 
 TheSouL 3. 
 
 But thou may'ft lye : and, v/ith a falfe pretence 
 Of friendftiip, rob me of that excellence 
 Which my Creator's bounty hath beftow*d. 
 And freely given me, to whom he nothing owM. 
 
 The Serpent. 4. 
 
 Strange.compofltion ! fo credulous. 
 And at the fame time fo fufpicious I 
 This is the tree of knowledge ; and until [or ill ? 
 Thou eat thereof, how canft thou know what's good 
 
> 
 
 CoNTAGio Cordis. 
 
 /fee te (hini f'landi^ i/crip// f//errh^i.\\ 
 
I 
 
 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. ^ 
 
 The Soul. 5. 
 
 God infinitely good mv Maker is. 
 Who neither will nor can do aught amifs. 
 The being I receiv'd, was that he fent, 
 And therefore I am fure muft needs be excellent. 
 
 The Serpent. 6. 
 
 Suppofe it be : yet doubtlefs he that gave 
 Thee fuch a being muft himfelf needs have 
 A better far, more excellent by much : 
 Or elfe be fure that he could not have made thee fuch, 
 
 The Soul 7. 
 
 Such as he made me, I am well content 
 Still to continue : for, if he had meant 
 I fhould enjoy a better ftate, he could 
 As eafily have giv'n it^ if he would. 
 
 The Serpent, 8. 
 
 And is it riot all one, if he have giv'n 
 The means to get it ? Muft he ftill be driven 
 To new works of creation for thy fake ? 
 Wilt thou not what he fets before thee deign to take ? 
 
 TiJe Soul, 9. 
 
 Yes, of the fruits of all the other trees 
 I freely take and eat : they are the fees 
 Allow'd me for the drefling, by the Maker: 
 But of this fatal fruit I muft not be partaker, 
 
 Tl)e Sirpent. 10. 
 
 And why: What danger can it be to eat 
 That which is good, being ordain'd for meat ? 
 What wilt thou fay? God made it not for food ? 
 Ordare'ft thou think that, made by him, it is not good I 
 
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1© THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 
 
 The Soul. II. 
 
 Yes, good it is, no doubt, and good for meat : 
 But 1 am not allow'd thereof to eat. 
 My Maker's prohibition, under pain 
 Of death, the day I eat thereof, makes me refrain. 
 
 7he Serpent, 12. 
 
 Faint-hearted fondling ! canft thou fear to die, 
 Being a fpirit and immortal ? Fie. 
 God knows this fruit once eaten will refine 
 Thy grofTer parts alone, and make thee all divine, 
 
 The Soul 1 3. 
 
 There's fomething in it, fure : were it not good. 
 It had not in the midft of th' garden ftood : 
 And being good, 1 can no more refrain 
 From wiihing, than 1 can the fire to burn reftrain. 
 
 14. 
 Why do I trifle then ? What I defire 
 Why do I not ? Nothing can quench the fire 
 Of Ion<^ing, but fruition. Come what will. 
 Eat it I muft, that 1 may know what's good and ill, 
 
 The Serpent, 15. 
 
 So, thou art taken now : that refolution 
 G'ves an eternal date to ihy confufion. 
 Th knowledge thou haft got of good, and ill. 
 Is of good gone, and paftj of evil, prefcnt flill. 
 
 l*he 
 
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 ABI.ATIO Cordis. 
 
 J<:a.'anmuj:iia' Aiunms'.su' sun' (rrdr (vreft. 
 
THE SCHOOL OF THE flEART. 1 1 
 The Taking a ^^AY of the Heart. 
 
 Hoi. iv II. 
 
 Whoredom and tuine, and new imne^ take aivay the 
 
 heart, 
 
 E P I G. 2. 
 
 jyJSElufl and luxury^ the fcum and drofs 
 ^ Of hell-born p/eafures, pleaje thee, to the lofs 
 Of thy foul's precious eye-fight^ reajon ; fo 
 mindlefs thy m'lnd^ heartlefs thine heart doth groiv, 
 
 ODE II. 
 
 I. 
 
 Laid down already ? and fo U9: afleep ? 
 
 Thy precious heart left loofely on thine hand. 
 Which with all diligence thou fhouldelt keep. 
 And guard againft thofe enemies, that Ttand 
 Ready prepare'd to plunge it in the deep 
 Of all diftrefs ? Roufe thee, and undcrftand 
 In time, what in the end thou mud confef?. 
 That mifery at laft and wretchcdnefs 
 Is all the fruit that fprings from ilothful idlenefs, 
 
 Whilft thou lie*fl: foaking in feciirity. 
 
 Thou drown'ft thyfelf i:; fenfual delight. 
 And wallow'ft in debauched luxury. 
 
 Which, when thou art awake and feefl,will fright 
 Thine heart with horror. When thou (halt deter y. 
 By the day-ligljt, the danger of the night. 
 
 Then, then, if not too late, thou wilt confefs,^. 
 That endlefs mifery and wretchcdnefs 
 Is all the fruit that fprings from riotous excefs. 
 
 B 2 Wiiilft 
 
12 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART, 
 
 3- 
 
 Whllll^ thou dofl pamper thy proud flefii, and thrufl 
 
 Into thy paunch the prirrxC of all thy ftorCa 
 Thou doit but gather fuel for that lufl, 
 
 Whichj boiling in thy h'ver, runneth o'er, 
 And frieth in thy throbbing veins, which mufl 
 Needs vent, or burft, vi'hen they can hold no more. 
 But Oh confider u'hat thou fhalt confefs 
 At laft, that milcry and wretched nefs 
 Is all the fruit that fprings from luftful wantonnefs, 
 
 . , 4- 
 Whilft thou doft feed effeminate defires 
 With fpumy pleafures, whilft fruition 
 The coals of lufl fans into flaming fires, 
 And fpurious delights thou doatefl: on, 
 Thy mind through cold remiilhcfs ev'n expires. 
 And all the adiive vigour oft is gone. 
 
 Take heed in time, or elfe thou fhalt confefs 
 At laft that mifery and wretchednefs 
 Is all the fruit that fprings from carelelTmindednefs, 
 
 5- 
 
 Whilft thy regardlefs fenfe-diflblved mind 
 
 Lies by unbent, that fhould have been thy fpring 
 Of motion, rdl thy headftrong palTions find 
 
 Themfelves let loofe, and follow their owii fwing; 
 Forgetful of the great account behind. 
 
 As though there never would be fuch a thing. 
 But, when it comes indeed, thou wilt confefs 
 That mifery alone and wretchednefs 
 Is all the fruit that fprings from foul-forgetfulnefs. 
 
 Whilft 
 
THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 13 
 
 .-^i..i. ...1 -^ ^.v'C. li^'.l' . I/.' 
 
 Whllft thou remember'ft not thy latter end. 
 
 Nor what a i'eck';iing-thou one day muft make. 
 Putting no difference 'twixt foe and friend, 
 
 Thou'fuffer'ft belrlifti fiends-thine heart to take,, 
 Who, all the while thou trifieftj do attend. 
 Ready to bring it to the lake \" •- ' 
 
 Of fire and brimftone : where thou {halt confefs^ 
 That endlefs "mifcry ^and wrctchednefs 
 Is all the fruit that. ipringsCrOrailupid heartlefTnefs.. 
 
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If THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 
 
 The Darkness of the Heart. 
 
 Rom. i. 21. 
 Their foolijh heart was darkened. 
 
 E P I G. 3. 
 
 OUCH ckudy Jhadows have eclipsed thine hearty 
 
 As iiature cannot parallel^ nor art : 
 Unlefs thou take my light of truth to guide thee^ 
 Blacknejs of darknefs will at length betide thee, 
 
 ODE m> 
 
 I. 
 
 Tarry, O tarry, left thine heedlefs hafte 
 Hurry thee headlong unto hell at laft : 
 
 See, fee, thine heart's already half-way there; 
 Thofe gloomy (hadows, that encompafs it. 
 Are the vaft confines of th'infernal pit. 
 
 O ftay ; and if thou lov'ft not light, yet fear 
 That fatal darknefs, where 
 Such danger doth appear. 
 
 2. 
 
 A night of ignorance hath overfpread 
 Thy mind and underftanding : thou art led 
 
 Blindfolded by unbridled paflion ; 
 
 Thou wand'reft in the crooked ways of err6r. 
 
 Leading dire6^]y to the king of terror : 
 
 The courfe thou takefl, if thou holdeft on. 
 
 Will bury thee anon 
 
 In deep deftrucStipn. 
 
 WhiHt 
 
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 M'ii ti'/i^Mt^ Cordis:: leiu/rct qi^iliysej^ferik^' 
 
 lid IliW 
 
,93rii Y/fiib Jona^ 
 
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THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 15 | 
 
 3- 
 Whilft thou art thus deprived of thy fight. 
 Thou know'ft no difPrence between noon and night, ' 
 
 Tho' the fun fliine, yet thou regard 'ft it not. 
 My love-alluring beauty cannot dra\y thee, i 
 
 Nor doth my mind-amazing terror awe thee : 
 
 Like one that had both good and ill forgot, \ 
 
 Thou careft not a jot J 
 
 What falleth to thy lot. 
 
 4- 
 Thou art become unto thyfelf a ftranger, , 
 
 Obferveft not thine own defert, or danger, j 
 
 Thou know'ft not what thou doft, nor canft thou ^ 
 Whither thou goeft : fhooting in the dark, [tell 
 
 How canft thou ever hope to hit the mark ? 
 
 What expectation haft thou to do well, '^ 
 
 That art content to dwell ] 
 
 Within the verge of hell ? 
 
 Alas, thou haft not fo much knowledge left. 
 As to confider that thou art bereft 1 
 
 Of thine own eye-fight. But thou run'ft, as tho* I 
 
 Thou faweft all. before thee : whilft thy mind j 
 
 To neareft necefTary things is blind. 
 
 Thou knoweft nothing as thou ought'ft to know, 
 Whilft thou efteemeft fo 
 The things, that are belov/, 
 
 6. ^ 
 
 Would ever any, that had eyes, miftake | 
 
 A5 thou art wont to do : no di^rence make '' 
 
 Betwixt ; 
 
i6 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 
 
 Betwixt the way to heaven and to hell ? 
 But, defperately devoted lo de/lru6tion, 
 Rebel ag<iinfl the; light, abhor inftru£tion ? 
 
 As tho' thou didft defire with death to dwell^ . 
 Thou hateft to hear tell 
 How yet thou may'ft do well. 
 Mil fi.i 
 
 Oh that thou didft but fee how blind tliou art. 
 And feel the difmaldarknef^ of thine heart ! 
 
 Then wouldft thou labour for, and I would lend. 
 My light to guide thee : that's not light alone. 
 But life, eyes, fight, 'grace, glory, all in one, , .; / 
 Then (houldft thou know whither thofe by-way& 
 ': f: /- And that death in the end [bend^ 
 
 -.On darl^efs doth-i^tteodk. i-'-i--' '^.iii»lV/ 
 
 
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CORBIS PlTGA . 
 
 Qitam fiifferet.Ffiqitira , tfami Ccr.'.si G^rhaltre^ , 
 Xon menuni/se Mei ,nonMprnimfsf' Sm . 
 
THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 17 
 
 The Absence of the Heart. 
 
 Prov. xvii. 16. 
 
 f therefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get 
 
 wifdomy feeing he hath 71 j heart to it F 
 
 Epic. 4. 
 
 TTJDS T thou an hearty thou fickle fugitive^ 
 -^■^ How would thine heart hate and difdain to /iv$ 
 A^lindful of fuch vain trifles as thefe be ! 
 
 ODE iV. 
 
 The Soul. I. 
 
 Brave, dainty, curlou?, rare, rich, precious things ! 
 ^Able to make fate-blafted mortals bl&ft, 
 peculiar treafures, and delights for kings, 
 That having pow'r of all, would chufe the beft. 
 How do I hug mine happinefs, that have 
 Prefent pofleifion of what others crave ! 
 
 Chrifl. 2. 
 
 Poor, filly, fimple-, fenfe-befotted foul, 
 Why doft thou hug thy felf-procured v/oes ? 
 Releafe thy free-born thoughts, at leaft controul 
 Thofe paflions that enflave thee to thv foes. 
 
 How wouldft thou hate thyfelf, if thou didft know 
 The bafenefs of thofe things thou prizeft fo ! 
 
 The SouL 3. 
 
 They talk of goodnefs, virtue, piety. 
 Religion, honefty, I know not what ; 
 So let them talk for me : fo long as I 
 Have g;oods and lands, and gold and jewels, that 
 
 Both 
 
i8 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 
 
 Both equal and excel all other treafure, [fure ? 
 
 Why lliould I ftrive to make their pain my plea- 
 
 Chrlji, 4. 
 
 So fwine neglect the pearls that lie before them. 
 Trample them under foot, and feed on draff* : 
 So fools gild rotten idols, and adore them, 
 Caft all the corn away, and keep the chaff. 
 That ever reafon ifhould be blinded fo. 
 To grafp the ihadow, let the fabftance go ! 
 
 The SouL 5. 
 
 AlTs but opinion that the world accounts 
 Matter of worth : as this or that man fets 
 A value on it, fo the price amounts : 
 The found of ftrings is vary'd by the frets. 
 
 My mind's my kingdom : why (hould I withfland^. 
 
 Or queftion that, which I myfelf command I 
 
 Chrijl, 6. 
 
 Thy tyrant paffions captivate thy reafon : 
 Thy luffs ufurp the guidance of the mind : 
 Thy fenfe-led fancy barters good for geafonft 
 Thy feed is vanity, thine harveft wind : 
 
 Thy rules are crooked, and thou write'ft awry: 
 Thy ways are wand'ring, and thy mind to die» 
 
 ne Soul 7-. 
 
 This table fums me myriads of pleafure: 
 That book enrolls mine honour's inventory: 
 Thefe bags are fluff'u with millions of treafure :: 
 Thofe writings evidence my ffate of glory : 
 Thefe bells ring heavenly mufic in mine ears, 
 To drown the noife of cumb-rous cares and fears. 
 
 * l>^ff> i. e. fwill, or hogs-me4t. + Gea?ion, or gazojtf 
 
 i. c. a fod of earths 
 
 Thofe^ 
 
THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART, i^ 
 
 CJmj'}. 8. 
 
 Thofe oleafures one day will procure thy pain : 
 That which thou ^K>ri*ll: in, w=:l be th- fliame : 
 Thoa'lc and thy lofs in what thou Lhought'iithy gain; 
 Thine honour will put on anv.tther name. 
 
 That niufic, in tht- ..l)ic, vi'l rw^y thy knell j 
 Inftead ot heaven, toll thee inuo hell. 
 
 9- 
 But why do I thus vvafte my words in vain 
 On one th;?.r"s whoilv taken up with toys ; 
 That will not lofe one dram of earth, to gain 
 A full eternal weio;ht of heav/niy joys r 
 All's to no purpofe : 'tis a good forbear. 
 As fpeak to one that hath no heart to hear. 
 
 The 
 
io THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART, 
 
 The Vanity of the Heart. 
 Job XV. '^i. 
 
 Let not him that is deceived trujl in vanity^ for vanity 
 Jhall be his recompence, 
 
 £ p I G. 5. 
 
 /jMhltion bellows with the wind of honour^ 
 •^ Puffs up the /welling hrart that dotes upon her : 
 Which y fill d with ernpt: vanity ^ breathes forth 
 Nothings butfuch things as are nothing worth, 
 
 O D E V. 
 
 I. 
 
 The bane of kingdoms, world's difquieter. 
 
 Hell's heir apparent, Satan's eldefl fon, 
 
 Abftraft of illsj refined elixir, 
 
 And quinteffcnce of fin, ambition. 
 
 Sprung from th' infernal fhades, inhabits here. 
 
 Making man's heart its horrid maniion. 
 Which, tho' it were of vaft extent before. 
 Is now puilt up, and fwells Itill more and more, 
 
 2. 
 
 Whole armies of vain thoughts it entertains, 
 Is ftufFd with dreams of kiniidoms, anrl of crowns> 
 Pfelumes of profit without care or pains. 
 Threatens to bi^fHe all its foes with frowns. 
 In ev'ry bargain makes account of gains, 
 Fanfies fuch frolick mirth as choaks and drowns 
 The voice of confcience, whole loud alarms 
 Cannot be heard for pleafme's countercharms. 
 
 -i Wer't 
 
JSml^ 
 
 :-4: 
 
 C ORinS "N^VNITAS . 
 
 ((<?' ya/imn .• kine ^s/iira^ nil w'st (frande JHfAi/. 
 
THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 2i 
 
 3- 
 
 Wer't not for anger, and far pity, who 
 Could chufe but iVnile to fee vain- glorious men 
 Racking their wits, ftraining their finews fo. 
 That, thorough t];eir tranfparent ihinnefs, when 
 They meet with wind and fun, they quickly grow 
 Riv'led and dry, (brink i.ll tliey crack again. 
 
 And all but to feem greater than they are ? [bare : 
 Stretching their ftrsngth, they lay their weaknels - 
 
 4- 
 
 See how hell's fueller his bellows plies, 
 lUov/ing the fire that burnt too fall before : 
 See how the furnace flames, the fparkles rife 
 And fpr^ad themfelves abroad fcill more and mote I 
 See how the doting foul hath fix'd her eyes 
 On her dear fooleries, and doth adore. 
 
 With hands and heart lift up, thofe trifling toys 
 Wherewith the devil cheats her of her joys ! 
 
 5- 
 Alas, thou art de^civ'd^ that glitt'ring crown. 
 On which thou gazeil, is not gold but grief. 
 That fceptre forrow : if thou take them down. 
 And try them, thou fhalt find what poor relief 
 They could afford thee, tho' they were thine own, 
 Didfl thou command ev'n all the world in chief, 
 Thy comforts would abate, thy cares ir.creafe. 
 And thy perplexed thoughts dillurb thy peace. 
 
 6. 
 
 Thofe pearls fo thor?)ugh pierce'd, and ftrung together, 
 Tho* jewels ir. thine ears they may appear, 
 Will prove continu'd perils, when the weather 
 Is clouded once, which yet is fair and clear, 
 
 [N^qJ C ' What 
 
22 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 
 
 What will that fan, tho* of the finefl feather. 
 Stead thee, the brunt of winds and ftornis to bear? 
 Thy flagging colour^ hang their drooping head, 
 / And the Ihrill trumpet's found (hall (trike ttiee dead, 
 
 7- 
 Were all thofe ball?, which thou in fport dofl tofs. 
 Whole worlds, and in thy power to command, 
 The gain would never countervail the lofs, 
 Thofe flipp'ry globes will glide out of thine hand; 
 Thou canft have no fafl hold but of the crofs. 
 And thou v/ilt fall, where thou doft think to (hnd, 
 Forfiike thefe follies, then, if thou wi^t live: 
 Timely repentance may thy death reprivg. 
 
 The 
 
^w/v 6 
 
 Coni>is Agcravatio. 
 
 JTafaJhi^' s-u/wrmi tenderf ,(hrcfa I'tfa/i/^. 
 
THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 23 
 
 The Oppression of the Heart. 
 
 Luke xxi. 34. 
 
 fake heed, left at any time your hearts be overcharged 
 
 with furfeiting and drunkemiefs, 
 
 E p I G. 6.^ 
 
 Cr^JVO majfy weights^ furfeiting^ drmkennefs^ 
 -* Like mighty logs of lead, di fo opprefs 
 The heavn-born hearts of men ^ that to afpin 
 Upwards they hav£ mr power nor dfre, 
 
 ODE VL i 
 
 I. 
 
 Monfter of fins ! See how thMnchanted foul, 
 
 O'ercharge'd already,, calls for more. 
 See how the helliih fkinker * plies his bowl, 
 And's ready furnifhed with ftore^ 
 Whilft cups on every fide 
 Planted, attend the tide. 
 
 2. 
 See how the piled diilies mounted ftand, 
 
 Lilce hiJli advanced upon hills, 
 And the abundance both of fea and hni 
 Doth not fuffice, ev'n what it fills, 
 Man's dropfy appetite, 
 And cormorant deli^-hr. 
 
 o 
 
 ♦ Skinler-j i. e. butler, 
 
 C 2 See 
 
24 THE SCHOOL OF TI^' HEART. 
 
 See ho'A' the poifon'J hody*s pufV'd and Aveird, 
 
 The face jnflimed glows vvich heat. 
 The limbs unable* arc themfelves to wield. 
 The pulfes fdeath's alarn)) do beat : 
 Yet man fits ilill, and laughs, 
 Whilft his own bane he quaffs. 
 
 ,;_ .:.^---.. - , .. ■■■■-: 
 
 But where*9 thine iieart the whiles thoti fen felefs Tot ? 
 
 Look ho\y it lieth crufh'd, and q^uell'd. 
 Flat beaten to the board, that it cannot 
 Move from the pbce where it is held^ 
 Nor upward once afpire 
 With heavenly defira. 
 
 5- 
 Thy belly is».thy god, thy (hame thy glory. 
 
 Thou mindeS only earthly things j 
 And all thy pleafure is but tranfitory. 
 
 Which grief at laft and forrow brings : 
 The courfes thou doft take 
 Will make thine heart to akc. 
 
 Is *t not enough to fpcnd thy prcctoiw time 
 
 In empty idle compliment, 
 Ui.lefs thou lirain (to aggravate thy crime) 
 Nature beyond its own extent, 
 And force it I'o devour 
 An ay^ v. ithia an hour ? 
 
 That 
 
TliE SCHOOL OF THE HEART, i- 
 
 7- ^ 
 That which thou fwallow'ft is not loft alone. 
 
 Bat quickly will revenged be. 
 By feizing on thine heart, which, like a ftone,. 
 Lies bury'd in the midll of thee. 
 Both void of common fenfe 
 And reafon's excellence* 
 
 Thy body is difeafes' rendez;vous. 
 
 Thy oiind the market-place of vice,- ' 
 
 Th^ devil in thy will keeps open houfe: : 
 
 Tho'i liv'ft, as though thou vvould'ft intic^ ? 
 
 Hell- torments unto thee, ' 
 
 And ihine own devil be, 
 
 9' ' ■ 
 
 Oh what a dirty dunghill art thou grown,. ] 
 
 A nafty ftinking kennel foul ! * 
 V/hen tho i awaice'/l and feeft what thou hail done,, - 
 
 Sorrow v/iil iwallovV up thy foul, \ 
 
 ^o think how thou art foii'd, : 
 And' all thy glory fpoil'd,- 
 
 lO. \ 
 
 Or if thou canft not be ailiame'd, at leaftr j 
 
 Have Tome compiiliOn on thvlelf -.j 
 Before thou art transformed all to beaft^. i 
 
 At iail: ftriice fail, avoid the flielt 
 V/hich in that gulf dodi lie. 
 Where all that enter die^. 
 
 e 1. T::5r 
 
26 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 
 
 The Cov£TOUSNESs of the Heart, 
 
 Mat. vi. zi» 
 inhere your treafare is^ thire will your heart he a]fo^ 
 
 U 
 
 E P I G. 7. 
 
 •l 
 
 jOST tbou inquirey then hcartlefs wanderer^ 
 
 UHjere thine heart is F Behold^ thitie heart is herct* \ 
 
 Here thine heart isy zvbere that is, which abwe \ 
 
 Ihijic own dear heart, thou dojl ejicevi and lorn*. ' 
 
 ODE VIL. J 
 
 Sec the deceitfulnefs of fin, *' 
 
 And how the devil cheatcth world!)' men : j 
 
 They heap up riches to thcmfelvcs, and then \ 
 
 Thev think tliey cannot chufe but win^, \ 
 
 Though, for their parts^ ] 
 
 They ftake their, hearts. ; 
 
 2. \ 
 
 The merchant fends his heart- to fea,. 
 
 And there, together with his fliip, 'tis.tofl: 
 
 If this by chance. mifcarry, that is Jofl, J 
 
 His confidence is caft away : \ 
 
 He hangs the head, \ 
 
 As he were. dead. \ 
 
 The I 
 
Enir^ 
 
 0:1^ J ■[ liyJ: TALh V^Jfi'} 
 COHDIS AV!AiaTIA.. 
 
 {hru/i sif tf turns Vti^a et£a'cors .^ seihcetAic ^^, 
 ^/tr^h. ^ nod nroprw p /its' ti/'r^ (hrt/e ri/a/^et . 
 
f\3f io 21; 
 
THE SCHOOL OF THE HEAJLT. zy : 
 
 3- ^! 
 
 The pedfar cries. What do you lack ? 
 
 What will you buy ^ and boafts his wares the bell :, j 
 
 But offers yoa the refufe of the relt, i 
 
 As tho' his heart lay in his pack,. ! 
 
 Which greater gain. 
 
 Alone can drain. « 
 
 +. _ j 
 
 The ploughman furrows up his land,, j 
 
 And fows his heart together with his feed, j 
 
 Which, both alike earth-born, on earth do feed j ] 
 
 And profper, or are at a fland: 
 
 He and his field 
 
 Like fruit do yields j 
 
 5- \ 
 
 The broker and the fcriv'ner have ■ 
 
 The us'rer's heart in keeping with his bands * : ; 
 
 His foul's dear fuftenance lies in their hands, t 
 
 . And if they break, their fhop's his grave* \ 
 
 His int'ieft is \ 
 
 His only biifs,. * 
 
 \ 
 
 The money- hoarder in his bags 
 Binds up his heart, and locks it in his chefl |.. 
 The fame key {gtvqs to that, and to his breaitj.. 
 Which of no other heaven bra2:s ; 
 
 i\or can conceit i 
 
 A joy fo great. ] 
 
 \ 
 
 ^- Bands j i. c. bonds of obJigatlon, 1 
 
 2 So i 
 
!i8 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 
 
 7- 
 So for the greedy landmonger : 
 The purchafes he makes in ev'rv part 
 Take livery and feifin of his heart : 
 Yet his infatiate hunger, 
 For all his flore. 
 Gapes after more- 
 
 Poor wretched muckworms, wipe your eyes,. 
 Uncafe thofe trifles that befot you fo : 
 Your rich-appearing wealth is real woe. 
 Your death in your defires liesi. 
 Your hearts are where 
 You love and fear. - 
 
 9- 
 Oh think not then the world deferves 
 Either to be bclov'd or rVar'd by you : 
 Give heaven th^ic afFeiiions as its due. 
 
 Which always what it hath preferves- 
 In perfect blifs 
 That cndlc's is» 
 
 The 
 
JRm/^. S 
 
 ^\PERTIO COHDIS L.VN^CEALONGIISn. 
 
 Jjiifirfft , nufx^Jr.vu ii'/tcta frtdofv ru/'^t . 
 
THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 29 
 
 The Hardness of the Heart. 
 
 Zech, vii. 12. 
 
 ^hey made their hearts as hard as an adamant jftone^ 
 leji they Jhoidd hear the lazu, 
 
 Epig. 8. 
 
 TJrrORDS move thee not^ nor gift Sy nor Jlrokes : 
 
 Thyjlurdy adamantine heart provokes 
 My juftice^ Jlights my mercits : anvil-like, 
 Thoujiandyi unmoved ^ though my hammer Jirike, 
 
 ODE VIIL 
 
 I. 
 
 What have we here ? An heart ? It looks Tike one. 
 The fhape and colour fpeak it fuch : 
 But J having brought it to the touch, 
 I find it is no better than a ftone. 
 Adamants are 
 Softer by far. 
 
 2. 
 
 Long hath it f^eepcd been in Mercy's milk. 
 And foaked in Salvation, 
 Meet for the alteration 
 Of anvils, to have made them foft as filk ; 
 Yet it is ftill 
 Hardened in iU, 
 
 0/t 
 
so THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 
 
 3- 
 
 Oft have I rainM my word upon it, oft 
 The dew ot heaven hath diftill'd,. 
 With promifes of mercy frll'd, 
 Abk to make mountains of marble foft i 
 Yet it is not 
 Changed a jot. 
 
 4- 
 My beams of love fhine on it every day* 
 Able to thaw the thickeft ice ; 
 And, where they enter in a trice^ 
 To make congealed chryftal melt away ; 
 Yet warm they not 
 „ This frozen clot. 
 
 Nay more, this hammer, that is- wont to grind 
 Rocks unto duft, and powder fmalT, 
 Makes no impreffion at all,.j v A 
 Nor dint, nor crack, nor flaw, that I can find \ 
 But leaves it as 
 Before it was. 
 
 Is mine almighty arm decayed In flrength ? 
 
 Or hath mine hammer loft its weight ?' 
 That a poor lump of earth fhould flight 
 My mercies, and not feel my wrath at length. 
 With which I make 
 Ev'n heav'n to fhakc ! 
 
 No,.: 
 
THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 31 
 
 • 
 7- 
 No, I am ftiU the fame, I alter not. 
 
 And, when I pleafe, my works of wonder 
 Shall bring the iloutelt fpirits under. 
 And m^ke them to confefs it is their lot 
 To bow or break. 
 When I but fpeak. 
 
 But I would have men know, ^tis not my word 
 Or v/orks alone can change their hearts ; 
 Thefe inftruments perform their parts. 
 But 'tis my Spirit doth this fruit afFord. 
 'Tis I, not Art, 
 Can melt man's heart. 
 
 ?* 
 
 Yet would they leave their c'uftomary finning, 
 
 And fo unciinch the devil's claws. 
 That keeps them captive in his paws. 
 My bk>untv foon (hould fecond that beginning : 
 Ev'n hearts of Aeel . 
 
 My force ikould feci. 
 
 The 
 
3* 
 
 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART 
 
 The Division of the Heart. 
 
 Hof. X. 2. 
 
 TJnue heart is divided, Nozv Jhall they he Jound faulf)\ 
 
 Epic. 9. 
 
 TT A I N trifling virgin^ I ryiyjelf have glv^fj 
 ^ Wholly to thee : and Jhall 1 now he drivn 
 To reji contented with a petty pjrt. 
 That have deferved ?nore than a whole heart f - 
 
 ODE IX. 
 
 I. 
 
 More fnifchlef yet ? v/as 't not enough bcfoir 
 To rob me v.'holly of thine heart. 
 Which I aione 
 Should call mine own, 
 But thou muft mock me with a part ? 
 Crown injury with fcorn, to make it more \ 
 
 2. 
 What's a whole heart ? Scarce fiefh enough to fcrvc 
 A kite one breakfaft : how much lefs, 
 If it (hould be 
 OfFerM to me. 
 Could it fufficiently exprefs 
 What I fo;- making it at firft deferve ? 
 
 I gave 't 
 
Er,J^ 
 
 Coiu)is DrvT^sio. 
 
 Me ti/'i ruffi (v<itm deJerirti ,van^i'irfia. Cbre/i^r 
 fui- nu/u. T^^o. tiu /tars aliauan6ci alatur / 
 
THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART, j*^ 
 
 3- 
 
 I gave 't thee whole, and fully furnifhcd 
 With all its faculties intire. 
 There wanted not 
 The fmalleft jot 
 That ftri6teft juftice could require. 
 To render it completely perfected* 
 
 4. 
 And is it reafon what I give in grofs 
 
 Should be return'd but by retale ? 
 To take fo fmall 
 A part for all, 
 I reckon of no more avail 
 Than, where I fcatter gold, to gather drofs, 
 
 5» 
 Give me thine heart but as I gave it thee ; 
 Or give it nie at leaft as I 
 Have given mine 
 To purchafe thine. 
 I halv'd it not when I did die ; 
 But gave myfelf wholly to fet thee free. 
 
 6. 
 The heart I gave thee was a living heart ; 
 
 And when thy heart by fm was llairr, 
 I laid down mine 
 To ranfom thine, 
 That thy dead heart might live again, 
 And live intirely perfect, not in part. 
 
^ THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 
 
 7- 
 
 But whilft thine heart's divided, it is dead ; 
 Dead unto me, unlefs it live 
 To me alone. 
 It is all one 
 To. keep all, and a part to give : 
 For what's a body w^orth vi^ithout an head ? 
 
 8. 
 Yet this is worfe, that what thou keep'fl from me 
 Thou doft beftow upon my foes ; 
 And thole not mine 
 Alone, but thine- 
 The proper caufes of thy woes. 
 From whom i gave my life to fet thee free^ 
 
 9- 
 Have I betroth'd thee to myfelf, and /hall 
 The devil, and the world, intrude 
 Upon my right, 
 Ev*n in my fight ? 
 Think not thou cantt me fo delude .: 
 I will have none, unlefs I may have all. 
 
 10. 
 
 1 made it all, I gave it all to thee, 
 I gave all th?t I had for it : 
 If I muft lofe, 
 rd rather chufc 
 Mine intereft in all to quit:' 
 Or keep it whole, or give it whole to me. 
 
 The 
 
£n>/. 
 
 C ORDIS In S ATLVB JLl TAS . 
 
 yon tri^uelriurh tptv (or e^ ^atia7^/e Mimifo, 
 So&an , ^uce /rctt Or re^i/et ima Tr/os^ . 
 
THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 35 
 
 The I N s A T I A B X E N E s s of the Heart, 
 
 Hab. ii. 5. 
 
 Who mhrgeih h'ls defire as hcll^ and is as death, and 
 cannot befathjiedi 
 
 E P I G. 10. \ 
 
 CT^HE whole rciind world is not enough to fill 
 ^ Ths hearfs thvi'd corners^ but it cravdh JlilU 
 Only tJje Trinity^ that 7nade it, can 
 Suffice the vqjl triangled heart of man* 
 
 ODE X. 
 
 I. 
 
 The thirfly earth and barren womb crjr. Give * 
 The grave devoureth all that live : 
 
 The fire ftill burneth on, and never faith, 
 It is enough : The horfe-leech hath 
 
 Many more daughters : but the heart of mnn 
 
 Outgapes them ail as much as heav'n one i^^n, 
 
 2. 
 
 Water hath drown'd the earth : the barren womb 
 Hath teem*d fometimes, and been the tomb 
 
 To its own fwelling iffue : and the grave 
 Shall one day a fick furfeit have : 
 
 When all the fuel is confume'd, the fire 
 
 Will quench itfeif, and of itfelf expire, 
 
 D 2 But 
 
3^ '^'^im^p^mmmu. \ 
 
 3- 
 
 But the vaft heart of man's infatiatc. 
 
 His boundlefs appetites dilate -^ o^ ^on \ 
 
 Themfelves beyond all limits, his defires " "^ . 
 
 Are endlefs ftill ; whilft he afpires 
 To happinefs, and fain would find that treafure j 
 
 Where it is not , his wiflies know no meafure. i 
 
 His eye with feeing is not fatisfy'd. 
 
 Nor 's ear with hearing : he hath try'di rr/irl ':> j 
 At once tofurnifh ev'ry fev'ral fenfe, ^ -- 
 
 With choice of curious objects, when^ 
 He might extra£l. and into one unite, ; 
 
 A perfed: quinteffence of all delight. ! 
 
 5. ' ■ ' 
 
 Yet, having all that he can fanfy, fliU 1 
 
 There wanted niore to fill ' - j-iL^ri i.i ^ ' 
 
 His empty appetite. His mind is vex*d, • ..<) 4 
 
 And he is inwardly perplex'd, ^ ^ ] 
 
 He knows not why : whenas the truth is this, ^ ; 
 
 He would find fomething there, where nothing is. 1 
 
 6. ! 
 
 He rambles over all the facultie?, | 
 
 Pvanfacks the fecret treafuries : 
 
 Of art and nature, fpells the univerfe '. 
 
 Letter by letter, can rehearfe i 
 
 All the records of time, pretends to know ) 
 
 Reafons of all things, why they muft be (0. 
 
 Yet i 
 
> 
 
 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 37. 
 
 7- 
 
 Yet is not fo contented, but would fain 
 
 Pry in God's cabinet, and gain 
 Intelligence from heav'n of things to comCj - 
 
 Anticipate the day of doom, 
 And read the iflues of all a6lions fo, 
 As if God's fecret counfel he did know. 
 
 8. 
 Let him have all the wealth, all the renown. 
 
 And glory,, that the world can crown 
 Her deareft darlings with ; yet his defire 
 
 Will not reft there, but ftill afpire. 
 Earth cannot hold hrm, nor the whole creation ; 
 Contain his wifhes, or his expectation. 
 
 9. 
 The heart of man's but little j yet this Alia.. 
 
 Compared thereunto, 's but fmall. 
 Of fuch a large unparallel'd extenfe 
 
 Is the fhort-line'd circumference. 
 Of that three- corner'd figure, which to fill 
 With the round world, is to leave empty lUIL 
 
 So, greedy foul, addrefs thyfelf to H^avV, 
 
 And leave the world, as 'tis bereav^n -. . 
 
 Of all true happinefs, or any thing . 
 
 That to thine heart content can brings 
 
 But there a tri-une GoJ in glory fits. 
 
 Who. all grace-thirfting hearts both fills and fits. 
 
 D -i Tke^-- 
 
38 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 
 The Returning of the Heart. 
 
 Ifaiah xlvi. 2. 
 
 Remmler this, and Jhew yourfehes like men : Bring it 
 again to hearty O ye tranfgrejfcrs^ 
 
 E PI G. II. 
 
 •^ FT* have I caWd thee : 0. return at laj\, 
 ^^ Return unto thine heart : let the ti?ne fajl 
 Suffice thy wand rings. : know thui to cherijh 
 Revolting Jiilly is a mere will to perijh, 
 
 ODE XL 
 
 Chriji, r. 
 
 Return, O wanderer, return, return. 
 
 Let me not always wafte nrry words in vain. 
 
 As I havectone tooloiig. Whydoft thou fpurn fagain ? 
 
 And kick the counfeh that fhould bring thee back 
 
 The Soul. 7, 
 
 What's this that checks my courfe ? Methinks I feel 
 A cold remiffnefs feizing on my mind': 
 My ftagger*d refoluticms feem to reel, 
 As tho' they had in hafte forgot mine heart behind. 
 
 Chriji, 3. 
 
 Return, O wanderer, return, return. 
 
 Thou art already gone too far away, 
 
 it is enough : unjefs thou meun to burn 
 
 In \xt\\ for everj ftop thy courfe at laft, and flay. 
 
 The 
 
,^1S3H Orij lo O 34 X K a D T 3 
 
 ^'/7^/ 
 
 bijiii3d 21^0.1 Cordis' RETVER^io X^^-* ^" 
 
 Qmtm mi At jam tufies rei-vaitu rfrerterrs de^/4^.y 
 J\rcnereiiir(-,mer%aa. I'^lie/terire.mUa ^. 
 
Jo^6 9m Mod gnid^Jinoi sSiinT 
 i.ffi ,83JnfdJ9m : loo"^ ano biswio - 
 
 oq5ii^H^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ "'* ' ' 
 
 Va^liiio^ bmioUw^f^ 10 eoi^s^ :>l3B<l niu^ JUft ba£i'. 
 % .1^:^ n^^;>oi to ,b3l3vh I xns-^ ie- '^^ 
 
 ' «^'^^*^: .,fvh3bafifi3VBfi IwoVl 
 
 a T . fl3l-I \hd'6 
 
THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART, 3^ 
 
 The Soul 4. 
 
 There's fomething holds me back, I cannot move 
 Forward one foot : methinks, the more I ftrive, 
 The lefs I ftir. Is there a pow*r above 
 My will in me, that can nxy purpofes reprive ?" 
 
 Chriji. 5. 
 
 No power of thine own : 'tis I, that lay 
 Mine hand upon thine hafte ; whofe will can make 
 The reftlefs motions of the heavens ftay : 
 Stand ftill, turn back again,or new-found courfes take^ 
 
 The Soul. 6. 
 
 What ? am: I riveted, or rooted here? 
 That neither forward, nor on either fide 
 I can get loofe ? Then there's no hope, I fear 5 
 But I muft back again, whatever me betide, 
 
 Chriji, 7, 
 
 And back again thou flialt. Til have it fo.. 
 Tho' thou haft hitherto my voice negledled^ 
 Now I have handed thee, I'll let thee know. 
 That what I, will have done fhall not be uneiFe<5led» 
 
 The Soul. 8* 
 
 Thou wilt prevail then, and I'muftreturn. 
 But how ? or whither ? when a world of fbame 
 And forrow lies before me, and I burn 
 With horror in myfelf to think upon the fame. 
 
 9- 
 Shall I return to thee ? Alas, I have 
 No hope ta be reeeiv'd : a run-away, 
 A rebel to return ! Madmen may rave 
 Of mercy-miracles, but what will Juftice fay?' 
 
 3 Shall 
 
40 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 
 
 10. 
 
 Shall I return to mine own heart ? Alas, 
 
 'Tis loft, and dead, and rotten long ago, 
 
 I cannot find it what at firft it was. 
 
 And it hath been too long the caufe of all my woe. 
 
 Shall I forfake my pleafures. and delights. 
 My profits, honours, comforts, and contents. 
 For that, the thought whereof my mind afFrights, 
 Repentant forrow, that the foul afunder rents ? 
 
 Shall I return, that cannot though I would? 
 J, that had ftrength enough to go aftray. 
 Find myfelf faint and feeble, how I fhould 
 Return, I cannot run, I cannot creep this way. 
 
 What fhall I do ? Forward I muft not go> , 
 Backward I cannot : If I tarry here, 
 I fhall be drowned in a world of woe, , 
 And antedate my own damnation by defpaij. . 
 
 14. 
 But is't not better hold that which I have, 
 Than unto future expectation truft ? 
 Oh no : to reafon thus is but. to rave. 
 Therefore return I will, becaufe return I muft. . 
 
 Chrifi, 15. 
 
 Return, and welcome : if thou wilt, thou (halt : 
 Although thou canft not of thyfelf, yet I, 
 That call, can make thee able. Let the fault 
 Be mine, if, when thou wiU return, 1 let thee lie. 
 
 The 
 

^ W/'. /3 
 
 Cordis Effusio. 
 
 V 
 
 Veto- yuui- octi'itso, auid Vu/nera ne4Uvre- cglas /* 
 
THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 41 
 
 The Pouring out of the Heart. 
 
 Lam. ii. 19. 
 
 Four out thine heart like water before the face of the 
 
 Lord, 
 
 Epig. 12. 
 
 JT/'HY dofi thou hide thy wounds f why dojl thou hide 
 ^^ In th) clofe hreafl thy wijhesy andfo fide 
 With thine own fears and [arrows? Like a fpout 
 Of water y let thine heart to God break out, 
 
 ODE xn. 
 
 The Soul I. 
 
 Can death, or hell, be worfe than this eftate ? 
 Anguifh, amazement, horror, and con*'^ufion. 
 Drown my dilfradted mind in deep diftrefs. 
 My grief's grown fo tranfcendent, that i hate 
 To hear of comfort, as a falfe conclufion 
 Vainly infer'd from feigned prpmifes. 
 
 What (hall I do ? what Grange courfe fh^ll I try. 
 That, tho' 1 loathe to live, yet dare not die? 
 
 Chrifi, 2. 
 
 Be rule'd by me, I'll teach thee fuch a way. 
 As that thou fhalt not o.ily drain rhy -nind 
 From that f^eftru6^ive deluge of diftrefs 
 That overwhelms thy thoughts, but clear the day. 
 And foon recover light and Itrength, to imd 
 And to regain thy long loft happinefs. 
 
 Confefs, and pray. Say what it if doth ail thee. 
 What thou would'ft hare, and that ihall foon avail 
 
 [thee. 
 
 The 
 
42 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 
 
 The SouL 3. 
 
 Confefs and pray ? If that be all, I will. 
 Lord, I am ficlc, and thou art heahli, reilore me. 
 Lord, I am weak, and thou art ftrength, fuftain me. 
 Thou art all goodnefs, Lord, and I all ill. 
 Thou, Lord, art holy ; I unclean before thee. 
 Lord, I am poor ; and thou art rich,, maintain me. 
 
 Lord, I am dead ; and thou art life, revive me. 
 
 Juftice condemns j let mercy. Lord, reprieve ine« 
 
 4. 
 
 A wretched mifcreant I am, composed 
 Of fm and mifery ; 'tis hard to fay. 
 Which of the two allies me moft to hell : 
 Native corruption makes me indifpos'd 
 To all that's good ; but apt to go aftray, ] 
 Prone to do ill, unable to do well ; 
 
 My light is darknefs, and my liberty 
 
 Bondage, my beauty foul deformity, 
 
 A plague of leprofy o'erfpreadeth all 
 My pow'rs and faculties : I am unclean, 
 I am unclean : my liver broils with luft j 
 Rancour and malice overflow my gall ; 
 Envy my bones doth rot, and keeps me lean ; 
 Revengeful wrath makes me forget what's juft : 
 Mine ear's uncircumcis'd, mine eye is evil. 
 And hating goodnefs makes me parcel * devil. 
 
 Parcel devil '^ i. e. fliarc or partake with him. 
 
 uri 
 
THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 43 
 
 6. 
 
 My callous confclence is cauterizM ; 
 My trembling heart fhalces with continual fear : 
 My frantick paffions fill my mind with madnefs : 
 My windy thoughts with pride are tympaniz'd : 
 My pois'nous tongue (pits venom every-where : 
 My wounded fpint's fwallow'd up with fadnefs : 
 Impatient difcontentment plagues me fo, 
 I neither can ftand ftill> nor^forward go^ 
 
 7- 
 
 Lord, I am all difeafes : hofpitals. 
 
 And bills of mountebanks, have not Co many. 
 
 Nor half fo bad. Lord, hear, and^help, and heal me. 
 
 Although my guiltinefs for vengeance calls. 
 
 And colour of excufe I have not any. 
 
 Yet thou haft goodneTs, Lord, that may avail me. 
 
 Lord, I havepour'd out all njy heart to thee ; 
 
 Vouchlafe one drop of mercy unto me. 
 
 The 
 
44 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 
 
 The Circumcision of the Heart, 
 
 Deut. X. 1 6. 
 
 Circumcife the forejkin of your hearty and be no more 
 Jllff-necked* 
 
 E p I G. 13, 
 
 TTERE^ take thy Saviour 5 crofsy 
 •^^ That for thy fake his holy fiejh did tear : 
 Ufe them as knives thine heart to circumcije^ 
 And drtfs thy God a pkafmgfacrijice. 
 
 the nails and/pear^ \ 
 
 ODE xni. I 
 
 I. 
 
 Heal thee ? I will. But firft I'll let thee know 
 
 What it comes to. 
 The plaifter was prepared long ago : 
 Bur thou muft do 
 Something thyfelf, that it may be 
 EfFedually apply'd to thee. 
 
 I, to that end, that I might cure thy fores. 
 
 Was flain, and dy'd. 
 By mine own people was turn*d out of doors. 
 And crucify'd : 
 My fide was pierced with a fpear, 
 And nails my hands and feet did tear. 
 
 Do 
 
1)1 
 
 .OOHC 
 
 r;, 
 
 5<it4©- 
 
 CoHULs Cmcmyccisio 
 
THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 45 
 
 3- 
 Do thou then to thyfelf, as they to me : 
 
 Make hafte, and try. 
 The old man, that is yet alive in thee. 
 To crucify. 
 Till he be dead in thee, my blood 
 Is like to do thee little good. 
 
 4' 
 My courfe of ph-s fic is to cure the foul. 
 
 By killing fm. 
 So then thine own corruptions to controul 
 Thou muft begin. 
 Until thine heart be circumcis'd. 
 My death will not be duly priz'd. 
 
 S- 
 
 Confider then my crofs, my nails, and fpear. 
 
 And let that thought 
 Cut rafor-like thine heart, when thou doft hear 
 Hov/ dear I bought 
 Thy freedom from the pow*r of (in^ 
 And that diftrefs which thou waft in, 
 
 6. 
 Cut out the Iron finew of thy neck. 
 
 That it may be 
 Supple, and pliant to obey my beck^ 
 And learn of me. 
 Meeknefs alone, and yielding, hath > 
 
 A power to appeafe my wrath. 
 
 [N" 10] E Shavi 
 
46 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 
 
 7- 
 
 Shave ofF thine hairy fcalp, thofe curled locks 
 
 Powder'd with pride, 
 Wherewith thy fcornful heart my judgments mockSj 
 And thinks to hide 
 Its thunder- threatened head, which bare'd 
 Alone is likely to be fpare'd. 
 
 8. 
 Rip off thofe Teeming robes, but real rags. 
 
 Which earth admires 
 As honourable ornaments, and brags 
 That it attires ; 
 Which cumber thee indeed. Thy fores 
 Fefler with what the world adores, 
 
 9- 
 Clip thine ambitious wings, let down thy plumes. 
 
 And learn to ftoop, 
 Whilft thou haft time to ftand. Who ftill prefumes 
 Offtrength, will droop 
 At laft, and flag when he fhould fly. 
 / Falls hurt them moft that climb moft high, 
 
 10. 
 
 Scrape off that fcaly fcurf of vanities 
 
 That clogs thee fo : 
 Profits and pleafures are thofe ^enemies 
 That work thy woe. 
 If thou wilt have me cure thy wounds, 
 Firft rid each humour that abounds. 
 
 The^ 
 
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 CORBIS CONTlttTIO 
 
 
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THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 47 
 The C o N T R I T I o N of the Heart. 
 
 Pfalm li. 17. 
 
 A broken and cmtrite hearty Gcdy thou wilt not 
 defpife, 
 
 E P I G. 14.. 
 
 TT O IV gladly would 1 bruife and break this heart 
 '^^ Unto a thoiifand pieces, till the /mart 
 Mr,ke it confefs^ that^ of its nvn accord^ 
 It wilfully rebeir d againji the Lord! 
 
 ODE XIV. 
 
 I. 
 
 Lord, if I had an arm or novvV like thine. 
 And could effc<5l what I defire. 
 My love drawn heart, like fmallefi: wire 
 Bended and wnhen, ihould togeih^r twine 
 -xiui twilled lland 
 With thy comrnand : 
 Thou (houlJit no Iboner bid, but I would go. 
 Thou ihouldft not will the thin 2; I would not do. 
 
 2. 
 But I am weak. Lord, and corruption ftrong : 
 When I would fain do what I fhould. 
 Then I cannot do what 1 would : 
 Mine anion's fhort, when mine intention's long ; 
 Though my defire 
 Be quick as fire, 
 
 E 2 Y«t 
 
48 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 
 
 Yet my performance is as dull as earth, 
 -And ftifles its own ilTue in the birth. 
 
 But what I can do. Lord, I will y fmce what 
 I would, I cannot j I will try 
 Whether mine heart, that's hard and dry. 
 Being calm'd, and tempered with that 
 Liquor which falls 
 From mine eye-balls. 
 Will v/ork more pliantly, and yield to take 
 Such new imprelTion as thy grace fhall make, 
 
 4- 
 In mine own confcience then, as in a mcrtar, 
 I'll place mine heart, and bray it there : 
 If grief for what is pad, and fear 
 Of what's to come, be a fufHcient torture, 
 Fil Weak it ail 
 J;i pieces fmall : 
 Sin Aiall not nnd a iheard v/itbout a flaw^ 
 Wherein to lodge one Juft againft thy law, 
 
 5' 
 Remember then, mine heart, what thou hafl done; 
 What thou haft left undone : the ill 
 Of all my thoughts, v/ords, deeds, is flill 
 Thy curfed iffae only : thou art grown 
 To fuch a pafs. 
 That never was. 
 Nor is, nor will there be, a fm fo bad. 
 But thou fome way therein an hand haft had. 
 
 Thou 
 
THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 49 
 
 6. 
 
 Thou haft not been content alone to fin, ] 
 
 But haft made others fin with thee; ■ 
 
 Yea, made their fins thine own to be,. ^ 
 
 By liking, and allowing them therein. i 
 
 Who firft begins. 
 
 Of follows, fins i 
 
 Not his own fins alone, but finneth o'er '. 
 
 All the fame fins, both after and before. ' 
 
 7- ^ 'I 
 
 What boundlefs forrow can fuffice a guilt i 
 
 Grown fo tranfcendent ? Should thine eye 
 
 Weep feas of blood, thy fighs outvie ! 
 
 The winds, when with the waves they run at tilt *3 , ' 
 
 Yet thev. could not 
 
 Conceal one blot, I 
 
 The leaft of all thy fins againft thy God ] 
 Deferves a thunderbolt fhould be thy rod. 
 
 8. i 
 
 Then fince (repenting heart) thou canft not grieve ' 
 
 Enough at once while thou ait whole, j 
 
 Shiver thyfelf to duft, and dolef 
 
 Thy forrow to the fcveral atoms, give 
 
 All to each part. 
 
 And by that art 
 
 Strive thy dnTever'd felf to multiply, 
 
 A^d want of weight with number to fupp'ly. 
 
 * Run at tilt ; i. e. forcibly oppafe. An anticnt a^aitia] cxerciie. . 
 f Dele: j. e. deal cut or divjdg. 
 
 E. 3 . Tiffin 
 
50 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 
 
 The Humiliation of the Heart. 
 
 Ecclef. vii. 9. 
 The patient infpirit is better than the proud infpirit. 
 
 Epic. 15. 
 
 Ti/TINE hearty alas ! exalts itfelf too highy 
 ■^ '^ And doth delight a loftier pitch to fly 
 Than it is able to maintain, unlefs 
 It feel the weight of thine impofed prefs, 
 
 ODE XV. 
 
 I. 
 
 So let it be. 
 
 Lord, I am well content. 
 And thou (halt fee 
 
 The time is not mif-fpent. 
 Which thou doft then beftow, when thou doft c[.ueli 
 And crufh.^he heart where pride before did fwell. 
 
 2. 
 
 Lord, I perceive. 
 
 As foon as thou doft fend. 
 And I receive. 
 
 The blciiings thou doft lend. 
 Mine heart begins to mount, and doth forget 
 The ground whereon it goes, where it is fet. 
 
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 Cordis Hx'JMir.T.\Tio 
 
 
THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. jt- 
 
 3- 
 
 In health I grew I 
 
 Wanton, began to kick, \ 
 
 As though I knew 
 
 1 never (hould be fick. 
 
 Difeafes take me down, and make me know^ ^ 
 
 Bodies of brafs muft pay the debt they owe, i 
 
 4- i 
 
 If I but dream 
 
 Of wealth, mine heart doth rife ^ 
 
 With a full ftream ' j 
 
 Of pride, and I defpife 
 
 All that is good, until I wake, and fpy j 
 
 The fwelling bubble prick'd with poverty. j 
 
 5- " '; 
 
 A little wind i 
 
 Of undeferved praife ' 
 
 Blows up my mind^ ! 
 
 And my fwoln thoughts doth raife ' 
 
 Above themfelves, until the knk of {hame ' '■ 
 
 Makes me contemn my felf-difhonour'd name, • 
 
 ^• 
 
 One moment's mirth 
 
 Would make me run flark mad, < 
 
 And the whole earth. 
 
 Could it at once be had, I 
 
 Would not fuffice my greedy appetite, i 
 
 Didft thou not pain inftead of pleafure write. ^ 
 
 Lord, 
 
52, THE SCHOOL OF THE iiE ART.: ; 
 
 7. . 
 Lord, it is well 
 
 I was in time brought down, , 
 Elfe thou canft tell, 
 
 Mine heart would foon have flown 
 Full in thy face, and ftudy*d to requite 
 The ncheif of thy goodnefs with defpite. 
 
 8. 
 Slack not thine hand. 
 
 Lord, turn thy fcrew about : 
 If thy prefs ftand, 
 
 Mine heart may chance flip out, . 
 O queft* it unto nothing, rather than 
 It ihould forget itfelf, and fwell again^ . 
 
 9- 
 
 Or if thou art 
 
 Difpos'd to let it go,.. 
 Lord, teach mine heart 
 
 To layjtfelf as low 
 As thou canft it : that profperity 
 May ftill be tempered with humility,. 
 
 Thy way to rife. 
 
 Was to defcend : let me. 
 Myfelf defpife. 
 
 And fo afcend with thee. 
 Thou throw'ft them down that lift themfelves on high. 
 And raifed them that on the ground do lie. 
 
 *^^5 i. c, fqueeze, 
 
 •The.. 
 
COKWTS EMOT.IJn^IO 
 
THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 5 j 
 
 The Softening of the Heart. 
 
 Job xxiii. 16. 
 God maketh my heart foft. 
 
 Epic. 16. 
 
 JlyflN E heart is like a tnarhle Ice^ 
 ^ ^ BrAh cold and hard : but thou canjl in a trlci. 
 Melt it like wax^ great God^ if from above 
 Thou kindle in it ones thy fire of love* 
 
 ODE XVL 
 
 r. 
 
 Nay, blefTed Founder,, leave me not : 
 
 Jf out of all this grot 
 There can but any gofd be got, 
 The time thou doft beftow, the coft 
 
 And pains will not be loft : 
 The bargain is but hard at moft. 
 And fuch are all thofc thou doft make with me : 
 I'hou know'ft thou canft not but. a lofer be. 
 
 When the fun fhines with glitt'ring beams,. 
 
 His cold-difpelling gleams 
 Turn fnow and ice to wat'ry flreams. 
 The w^x, fo Toon as it hath fmelt 
 The warmth of fire, and feltj 
 The glowing heat thereof, will melt. 
 Yea, pearls with vinegar difTolve we may. 
 And adamants in blood of goats, they fay. 
 
 If 
 
54 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 
 
 If nature can do this^, much more. 
 
 Lord, may thy grace reftore 
 Mine heart to what it was before. 
 There's the fame matter in it ftill, 
 
 Though new inform'd with ill, 
 Yet can it not refift thy will, . 
 Thy pow'r, that frame'd it at the firft, as oft 
 As thou wilt have it. Lord, can make it foft, , 
 
 Thou art the Sun of righteoufnefs : 
 
 And though 1 muft confefs 
 Mine heart's grown hard in wickednefs, ... 
 Yet thy refplendent rays of light, 
 
 When once they come in fight, 
 Witt quickly thaw what froze by night. 
 Lord, in thine healing wings a pow'r doth dwell. 
 Able to melt the hardeft heart in hell. . 
 
 5- 
 
 ' Although mine heart in hardnefs pafs - 
 Both iron, fleel, and brafs. 
 Yea, the hardeft thing that ever was.5 
 Yet if thy fire thy Spirit accord. 
 
 And, working with thy word, 
 A bleffing unto it afford, 
 It will grow liquid, and not drop alone. 
 But melt itfelf away before thy throne. 
 
 Yea, 
 
. THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART, 5$ 
 
 6. 
 
 Yea, thougli my flinty heart be fuch. 
 
 That the fun cannot touch. 
 Nor fire fometimes afFed: it much. 
 Yet thy warm reeking felf-fhed blood, 
 
 O Lamb of God, 's fo good. 
 It cannot be withftood. 
 That aqua-regia of thy love prevails, 
 Bv'n where the pow*r of aqua-fortis fails. 
 
 7- 
 Tfien leave me not fo foon, dear Lor d> 
 
 Though I negledl thy word. 
 And what thy power doth afford ; 
 O try thy mercy, and thy love 
 
 The force thereof may prove. 
 Soak'd In thy blood, mine heart will foon furrendet 
 Its native hardnefs, aiid grow foft and tender. 
 
 The 
 
56 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. j 
 
 The Cleansing of the Heart. 
 
 i 
 
 Jer. V. 14. 
 
 Jerufakmy wajh thine heart from wic'kednefs^ thai \ 
 
 thou mayejl be faved* 
 
 E p I c. 17. I 
 
 /^ TIT of thy 'Wounded Hujband's, Saviour'* s fide ^ 
 
 ^^ Efpoufedfoul, there fows with a full tide ; 
 
 A fountain for uncleannefs : waJh thee there^ 
 
 JVaJh there thine hearty and then thou needfi not fear* \ 
 
 ODE XVII. I 
 
 endlefs mifery ! i 
 
 1 labour ftill, but ftill in vain. * 
 
 The ftains of fin I iee 
 Are oaded * all, or dye'd in grain, 1 
 
 There*s not a blot i 
 
 Will ftir a jot. 
 For all that I can do. 
 
 There is no hope 
 
 In fullers' foap, i 
 
 Though I add nitre too, j 
 
 2. 
 
 1 many ways have try'd. 
 Have often foak'd it in cold fears j 
 
 And, vi^hen a time I fpy'd, j 
 
 Pour'd upon it fcalding tears : ' \ 
 
 * Oadi or W^aL is a </f<?/> blue dye, ^^ i 
 
 Have I 
 
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 Cordis jNIrrxDATio 
 
 
THE SCHOOL OF THE HEAR W 5/ 
 
 Have rince'd and rubb'd, 
 
 And fcrape'd and fcrubb'd. 
 And turn'd it up and down : 
 
 Yet can I net 
 
 Wafh out one fpot ; 
 It's rather fouller grown. 
 
 3- 
 
 O miferable ftate ! 
 Who would be troubled with an heart. 
 
 As I have been of late, 
 Both to my forrow, ftiame, and fmart ? 
 
 If it will not 
 
 §e clearer got, 
 'Twere better I h id none. 
 
 Yet how ihould we 
 
 Divided be. 
 That are not two, but one ? 
 
 4- 
 But am I not ftark wild. 
 That go about to wafh mine heart 
 With hands that are defile'd 
 As much as any other part ? 
 
 Whilft all thy tears, 
 Thine hopes and fear?. 
 Both ev'ry word, and deed. 
 Add thought is foul, 
 PoorfiJly foul! 
 How canft thou look to /peed ? 
 
 5- 
 
 Can there no help be had ? 
 Lord, thou art hob:, thou art pure : 
 
 Mine heart is not fo bad, 
 So foul, but thou canft cleanle it, fure* 
 [NmoJ F Speak^ 
 
5S THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART, 
 
 Speak, bleiTed Lord, 
 Wilt thou afford 
 . Me means to make it clean ? 
 I know thou wilt : 
 Thy blood was fpilt. 
 Should it run ftill in vain? 
 
 6. 
 
 Then to that blefled fprin^. 
 Which from my Saviour's facred Tide 
 
 Doth flow, mine heart Til bring 5 
 And there it will be purify'd. 
 
 Although the dye^ 
 
 Wherein I lie, 
 Crimfon or fcarlet were ; 
 
 This blood, I know, 
 
 Will make't as fnow 
 Or wool, both clean and clear. 
 
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THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 5^ ; 
 
 The Giving of the Heart. 
 
 Prov. xxlii. 26. ; 
 Af)' fcn^ give me thine heart, 
 
 r 
 
 E PIG. 18. ^ 
 
 CJ^HE crily love, the only fear, ihcu art^ ' 
 •* Dear and dread S^vicier^ of my fm-fich hearts 
 
 Unne heart thou g^vtjl, thai it might be mine : ^ 
 
 Take thou mine heart, ihen^ that it may be thine, \ 
 
 ODE XVUI. ^ 
 
 Give thee mine heart ? Lord, fo I woulJ, 
 And there's great realbn that I fhould, 
 
 If it were worth the having : 
 Yet fure thou wilt efteem that good, 
 Which thou haft purchas'd with thy blood. 
 
 And thought it worth the craving. 
 
 Give thee mine heart ? Lord, fo I will, 
 ]f thou wilt tirfl impart the fkill 
 
 Of bringing it to thee : 
 But fhould I truft myfelf to give 
 Mine heart, as fare as I do live, 
 
 I fiiould deceived be. 
 
 Fa As 
 
 • -3 
 
6o THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART, 
 
 3- 
 
 As all the value of mine heart 
 Proceeds fro.n favour, Jiot defert, 
 
 Acceptit^ce is its" worth : 
 So neither know I how to bring 
 A prefent to my heav'nly King, 
 
 Unlefs he fet it forth. 
 
 4- ; 
 
 Lord of my life, methinks I hear j 
 
 Thee fay, that thee alone to fear. 
 
 And thee alone to love, i 
 
 Is to beftow mine heart on thee. 
 That other giving none can be, j 
 
 Whereof thou wilt approve. 
 
 4 
 
 5. - ^ 
 And well thou dofl: deferve to be - ; 
 
 Both loved, Lord, and fear'd by me^ ^ 
 
 So good, fo great thou art : , 
 
 Greatnefs {o good, goodnefsfo great, 'j 
 As pafTeth all finite conceit, 
 
 And raviflieth mine heart, I 
 
 Should I not love thee, blefled Lord, I 
 Who freely of thine own accord 
 
 Laid'ft down thy life for me ? 
 
 For me, that was not dead alone, ^J 
 
 But defp'rately tranfcendent grown - 
 
 In enmity to thee ?' "^ 
 
 Should 
 
THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 6i 
 
 7- 
 FhoulJ I not fear before thee. Lord, 
 
 Whofe hand fpans heaven, at whofe word 
 
 Devils themfelves do qua.k.e? 
 \V hofe eyes outfliine the fun, whofe beclc 
 Can ^he whole courfe of nature check. 
 
 And its foundations (hake ? 
 
 i 8. 
 
 Should I with-hold mine heart from thee. 
 The fountain of felicity, 
 
 Before whole prefence is 
 Fullnefs of joy, at whor^ right hand 
 All pleafures in perfe6^ion . -'^ ^ 
 
 And everiafling hMs f 
 
 l^/ord, had T hearts a million. 
 And myriads in ev'ry one 
 
 Of choiceft loves and fears j. 
 They were too little to beftow 
 On thee, to whom I all things owe, 
 
 1 fkoulJ be in arrears. 
 
 10. 
 
 Yef J fmce my heart's the moft I have. 
 And that which thou doft cliiefly crave, 
 
 Thou fhalt not of it mils. 
 Although I cannot give It fo - 
 As 1 Ihould do, ril offer "'t thoiuh ; 
 
 Lord, take it. here it is. 
 
 Xa\€^ 
 
62 THE SCHOOL. OF THE HEART. 
 
 The S A QR i,F I c E of the Heart, 
 
 Pfalm H. 17. 
 ^e facrtfi(es:of God are a broken, heart, 
 
 E p I G. ig. 
 
 ^\T R calv.esy nor bulls^ av ^ ucrifices good 
 -*- ^ Enough for thee, who y .u'Ji for me thy bloody 
 Andy more than that, thy life : take thine own party 
 Great God, that gaveji all-, here, take mine hearts 
 
 ODE XIX. 
 
 I. 
 
 Thy formet*' covenant of olJ^ 
 Thy law of ordinances, did require 
 
 Eat faCrificL's from the fold. 
 And many other off rings made by fire,. 
 
 Whilft thy firil tabernacle flood. 
 
 All things were confecrate with blood,. 
 
 And can thy better covenant,. 
 The law of grace" and truth by Jefus Chrifl, 
 
 Its proper facrifices want 
 For fuch an altar,, and for fuch a prieft ? 
 
 No,, no, thy gofpel doth require 
 
 Choice oir'fings too, and made by fire. 
 
 A facrificf 
 
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THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 6^' 
 
 3- 
 
 A facrifice for Q.n indeed^ 
 Lord, thou didft make thyfelf, and once for all L 
 
 So that there never will be need 
 Of any more fin-ofFVIngs, great or fmall. 
 
 The life-blood thou didft flied for me 
 
 Hath fet my foul for. ever free* 
 
 Yea, the feme facrifice thou doil 
 Still offer in behalf of thine ele£t : 
 
 And, to improve it. to the moft. 
 Thy word and facramcnts do in effect 
 
 Offer thee oft, and facrilice 
 
 Thse daily^ in our ears and eyes. 
 
 5- 
 
 Yea, each believing foul may -take 
 Thy facrificed flefh and blood, by faith. 
 
 And therewith an atonement maka 
 For all its trefpaffes : thy gofpel faith, 
 
 Stich infinite tranfcendent price. 
 
 Is there in.thyfweet facrifice \ 
 
 6. 
 
 But is this all ? Muft there not be 
 Peace-cfferings, and facriftces of 
 
 Thanlcfgiving, tender'd unto thee ? 
 Yes, Lord, 1 know I fhouid but mock, and feoff 
 
 Thy facrifice for fin, fliould 1 
 
 My facrifice of praife deny. 
 
 Ba 
 
^4. THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART, 
 
 7- 
 
 But I have nothing of mine own 
 Worthy to be prefented in thy fight ; 
 
 Yea, the whole world affords not one 
 Or ram, or lamb, wherein thou canft delight. 
 
 Lefs than myfelf it muft not be : 
 
 For thou didft give thyfelf for me, - 
 
 a. 
 
 Myfelf J then, I muft facrifice : 
 ^nd fo 1 will, mine heart, the only thing 
 
 Thou doft above ali other prize 
 As thine own part, the beft I hiive to bring. 
 
 An humble heart's a facrifice. 
 
 Which I know thou wih not defpifc. 
 
 9' 
 
 Lord, be my altar, fan^lify 
 Mine heart thy facrifice, and let thy Spirit 
 
 Flindle thy fire of l©ve, that I, 
 Burning with zeal to magnify thy merit,. 
 
 May both confume my fins, and. raift? 
 
 Eternal trophies lo thy praiie. 
 
 The 
 
JSm/' . QO . 
 
 COIIDIS POT^^DKRATIO. 
 
THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 65 
 
 The Weighing of the Heart. 
 
 Prov. xxi. 2. 
 
 The Lord pondereth the heart, 
 
 E P I G. 20. 
 
 THE heart thou giv'jl as a great gifi^ tn^ love. 
 Brought to the trial^ nothing fmh will prove } 
 if jujlice' equal balance tell thy Jfight^ 
 I'hat^ weighed with my laWy it is too light. 
 
 ODE XX. / 
 
 r. 
 *Tis true, indeed, an heart. 
 Such as it ought to be, 
 . ♦ Intire and founa iji cv*ry part, 
 
 • . Is always welcome unto me. 
 He that would pleafe me with an ofFering, • 
 Cannot a better have, altho' he were a king* 
 
 ■'■■ 
 
 And there Is none fo poor, 
 But, if he will, he may 
 Bring me an heart, altho' no more, 
 And on mine altar may it lay. 
 The facrifice which 1 like beft, is fuch 
 js rich men cannot boaft, and poor men need not 
 , [grutch. 
 
 I 
 
 Yet 
 
66 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART^ 
 
 3- 
 
 Yet cv'ry heart is not 
 A gift fuiEcient, 
 It muft be purge'd from ev'ry fpot^ 
 And all to pieces muft be rent. 
 Tho' thou haft fought to circumcife, and bruife % 
 It muft be weighed too, or elie I iliaH refufc 'u 
 
 4. 
 
 My balances are juft. 
 My law's an equal weight ; 
 The beam is ftrong, and thou may*ft truft 
 My fteady hand to hold it ftrcight. 
 Were thine heart equal to the world in fight. 
 Yet it were nothing worth, if it fhould prove too ligLt. 
 
 5- 
 
 And fo thou feeft it doth ; 
 My pond'rous law doth prefs ^ 
 This fcale ; but that, ae fUi'd with froth. 
 Tilts up, and makes no (hew o£ ftrefs* 
 Thine heart is empty fure, ou elfe it would 
 Ia weight, as well as bulk, better proportion hoW,. 
 
 6. 
 
 Search it, and thou (halt End. 
 It wants integrity ; 
 And yet is not fo thorough line'd 
 With fingle-eye*d fmcerity. 
 As it (hould be ; fome more humility 
 Thfixift wants to make it weight, and fome more con- 
 
 [ftancy. 
 
 Whilft 
 
THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 67 
 
 7- 
 
 XVhllft windy vanity 
 Doth pufF it up with pride, 
 And double-face'd hypocrify 
 Doth many empty hollows hide. 
 It is but good in part, and that but little, 
 \^av*ring unftaidnefs makes its refolutions brittle. 
 
 The heart, that in my fight 
 As current coin would pafs, 
 Muft not be the leaft grain too light, 
 But as at firft it ftamped was. 
 tCeep then thine heart till it be better grown. 
 And, when it is full. Ml take it for mine own. 
 
 9. 
 
 But if thou art afhame'd 
 To Rnd thine heart lb light. 
 And art afraid thou {halt be blame*d, 
 I'll tea^h thee how to fet it right. 
 Add to my law my gofpel, and there fee 
 My merits thine, and then the fcalcs will equal be, 
 
 The 
 
,68 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 
 
 The Trying of the Heart. 
 
 Prov. xvli. 3. 
 
 The finln^'pot for fiher, and the furnace for gold: but 
 the Lord trieth the hearts, 
 
 E p I G. 21. 
 
 CT'HlNE heart, my dear, more precious is than gold^ 
 -^ Or the mofl precious things that can be told : 
 Provide firji that my pure fire have trfd 
 Out all the drofs^ and pafs it purify d, 
 
 ODE xxr, 
 
 I. 
 
 What ! take It at adventure, and not try 
 What metal It is made of? No, not I. 
 
 Should I now lightly let it pafs. 
 Take fullen lead for filver, founding brafs 
 
 Inftead of folid gold, alas ! 
 What would become of it ? In the great day 
 Of making jewels, 'twould be caft away» 
 
 2. 
 
 The heart thou giv'ft me muft be fuch a one. 
 As is the fame throughout. I will have none 
 
 But that which will abide the fire. 
 'Tis not a glitt'ring outfide 1 defire, 
 
 Whofe feeming fhews do foon expire : 
 But real worth within, which neither drofs. 
 Nor bafe allays, make fubjed unto lofs. 
 
 X If* 
 
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TkE SCHOOL Ox^ THE HEART. 69 
 
 _ . 3- 
 
 If, in. the compofition of thine heart, 
 A ftubborn fteelly wilmlncfs have part. 
 
 That will not bow and bsnd to me. 
 Save only in a mere formrlity 
 
 Or tinfel-trimm'd hypocrify, 
 I care not for it, though it mew as Uir 
 As the fifll: blufli of the fun-gilded air. 
 
 ■ 4- 
 The heart that in my furnace will not melt. 
 When it the glowing heat thereof hath felt. 
 
 Turn liquid, and difTolve in tears 
 Of true repenfance for its fauhs, that hear^ 
 
 My threatening voice, and never fear$, 
 Is not an heart worth having. If it be 
 An heart of flone, 'tis not an heart for me. 
 
 5. 
 The heart, that, cafl into my furnace, fpits 
 And fparkles in my face, fall into fits 
 
 Of difcontented grudging, whines 
 When it is broken of its will, repines 
 
 At the leaft.fufFerlng, declines 
 My fatherly correction, is an heart 
 On which I care not to bellow mine art. 
 
 6. 
 
 The heart that in my flames afunder flie?. 
 Scatters itfelf at random, and fo lies 
 
 In heaps of alhes here and there, 
 Whofe dry difperfed parts will not draw near 
 
 To one another, and adhere 
 In a firm union, hath no metal in't 
 Fit to be flamp'd and coined in my mint. 
 [N°nJ G The 
 
70 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 
 
 7- 
 The heart that vapours out itfelf In fmoak. 
 And with thofe cloudy fliadows thinks to cloak 
 
 Its empty nakednefs, how much 
 Soever thou efteemeft it, is fuch 
 
 As never will endure my touch. 
 Before I take 't for mine, then I will try 
 What kind of metal in thine heart doth lie. 
 
 8. 
 
 I'll bring it to my furnace, and there fee 
 What it will prove, what it is like to be. 
 
 If it be gold, it will be fure 
 The hotteft fire that can be to endure. 
 
 And I fhall draw it out more pure. 
 Affliction may refine, but cannot waflc 
 That heart wherein my love is fixed faft. 
 
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THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 71 
 The Sounding of the Heart. . 
 
 Jer. xvii. 9, 10. 
 
 The heart ts deceitful above all things^ onddefperctely 
 wicked \ who can know it F I the Lord, 
 
 E PIG. 22. 
 T T HJ T alone am infinite^ can try 
 ? H^vj deep Within it f elf thine h^art doth lie. 
 Thy feama?i s pbutnmet can but reach the ground': 
 I find that which thine heart itfelf nier founds ' 
 
 ODE xxn. 
 
 I. 
 
 A -goodly heart to fee to, fair and fat f 
 
 It may be fo ; and what of that ? 
 Is it not hollow f Hath it not within 
 A bottomlefs whirlpool of fin ? 
 Are there not fecret creeks and cranies th<?re, 
 _,, , Turning and winding corners, where 
 The heart itfelf-ev'n from itfelf may hide, 
 
 And lurk in fecret unefpy'd ? 
 V\\ none of it, if Aich a one it prove : 
 Truth in the inward parts is that I love. 
 
 2. 
 
 But who can tell what is within thine heart? 
 
 ' Fis not a work of nature, art 
 Cannot perform that tafk : 'tis I alone, 
 
 Not man, to whom man's heart h known. 
 
 G'2- Sound. 
 
72 THE SCHOOL QF THE HEART. 
 
 Sound it thou may'fl-, and mud : but then the line 
 And plumm-it niuft be mine, not tl.ine ; 
 
 A:id I mnCc guide it too, thine hand and eye 
 May quickly be deceiv'd : but I, 
 
 That n?.ade thine hdiii't. it 'fifft, am better ikiWd. 
 
 To kno7r when it is empty, when 'tis fili'd. 
 
 Leil then thou fhould'il deceive thyillF, for Mc. 
 
 Thou canO: not; I will let thee fee 
 Some of thole depths of Satan, depths of hell, 
 
 V/here-^nth thine hollbw heart doth fwcll* 
 Under pretence of knowledge in thy mind, 
 
 iirror and ignorance I find ; 
 Quickfands of rotten fuperftition. 
 
 Spread over with mifprifion *. 
 5ome tilings thou knoweft not, mif-knoweft others. 
 And oft thy cpufcknce its own knowledge fmotheri. 
 
 Thy crooked will^ that feemingly inclines 
 
 To follow reafon's di6^ates, twines 
 Another way in fecret, leaves its guide. 
 
 And lags behind, or fwerves afide : 
 Crab like, creeps backward ; when it fhouid have made 
 
 Proprefs in good, is retrograde. 
 Whilft it pretends a privilege above 
 
 Reafon's prerogative, to move 
 As of itfelf unmov'd, rude paffions learn 
 To leave the oar, and take in hand the ftern^ 
 
 J,fiJpr\j:o7: J i. t' concciiimcflt of dgjigcrj 
 
 Tk? 
 
ri^HE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 73 
 
 . 5- _ . . , . 
 The tides of thine a1fFe6tions ebb and How/ , 
 
 Rife up aloft, fall dowajDelow, 
 Like to the fudd^n land-floods; tiiat advance 
 
 Their fwelling waters but by cb^ince. 
 Thy love, defire, thy hope, delight, aiid fear. 
 
 Ramble they care not when, nor wherc^ 
 Yet cunningly bear thee in hand, they be 
 
 Only dlret^ted unto me. 
 Or moft to me, and would.no notice take 
 Of other things, but only for my fake. 
 
 Such flrange prodigious impoffures lurk 
 
 In thy praedigious * heart, 'tis work 
 Enough for thee all thy life- time to learn 
 
 How thou may 'ft truly it difcern : 
 That, when upon rnine altar thou doH: lay. 
 
 Thine oft'ring, thou may 'ft fa^ly fay^ , 
 And fv\'ear it is an heart : for, if it fhotild 
 
 Prore only an heart-cafe, it:3iV.o"iild- 
 Nor pleafing^ be to me, uor 4o thee,goo3.. * 
 An heart's no heart, "not'Yightly una irTtccd- 
 
 G 3 The. J 
 
74 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART; 
 
 The Levelling of the Heart. 
 
 Pfalm xcvii. II. 
 Ghdnefsfor the upright In heart. 
 
 Epic. 23. 
 
 CET* thine heart upright^ if thou wouldji rejoice^ 
 ^ And pleafe thyfelf in thine heart's pleafing choice i 
 But then he Jure thy plumb and level he 
 Rightly apply^dto tlxit ivhich pleafeth me* 
 
 ODE XXIIL 
 
 Nay, yet I have not done : one trial more 
 Thine heart muft undergo, before 
 1 will accept of it : 
 
 Unlelslfee j 
 
 It upright be, 
 I cannot think it fit 
 To be admitted in my fight, 
 AvA to partake of mine eternal light. 
 
 2. 
 
 My will's the rule of righteoufnefs, as fre^ 
 From error as uncertainty : 
 What I would have is juft. 
 Thou muft defire 
 What I require. 
 And take it upon truft : 
 ]f thou prefer thy will to mine. 
 The level's loft, and thou go'ft out of line, 
 
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THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 
 
 3- 
 
 Ganft thou not fee how thine heart turns afide,^ 
 And leans toward thyfelf ? How wide. 
 A diftance there is here ?. 
 Until I. fee 
 Both fides agree 
 Alike with mine, 'tis clear 
 The middle is not where *t (hould be ; 
 Likes fomething better, though it look at me» . 
 
 T> that know beft how to difpofe of thee. 
 Would have thy portion poverty. 
 Left wealth Ihould make thee proud. 
 And me forget : 
 But thou haft fet 
 Thy voice to cry aloud 
 For riches ; and unlefs I grant 
 All that thou wiftieft, thou complain'ft of want. 
 
 5.- 
 
 I, to preferve thine health, would have thee faft: 
 From nature's dainties, left at laft 
 Thy fenfes fweet delight 
 Should end in fmart i 
 But thy vain heart 
 Will have its appetite 
 Pleafed to-day, though grief and fbrrow 
 Threaten to cancel all thy joys to-niorrow. 
 
 I, 10^ 
 
7*6 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEAfel". 
 
 I, topreven't '4hy hurt by cliwiblng high. 
 Would haVe thee be content to Hq 
 Quiet and fafe below. 
 
 Where peace doth dwell • 
 But thou doft fwell 
 With vaft defires, as thMigh 
 A little blalt of vulgar breath 
 Were bet icr than deliverance from deaths 
 
 I, to procure thy happinefs, would have 
 'I'hee mercy at mine hands to crave : : 
 But thou doft merit plead. 
 And wilt have none 
 But of thine' ov«i. 
 Till juftice ftrike thee dead. 
 And allthj' crooked paths go crofs to mitie. 
 
 
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THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 77 
 The Renewing of the Heart. 
 
 Ezek. xxxvi. 26. 
 J new heart wiil I gl've you, «nd a, new fpmt.willl 
 
 put within pn. 
 
 E P I G. 24, 
 
 AKr thou delighted luithjirange novelties,, :. 
 \ -^ mi-h often prove hut old freP-garm/h d lyes/ 
 
 leave then thine old, take the new heart I give thee : 
 \ Condemn thyfelf, that Jo I may reprieve thee. 
 
 ODE XXIV. 
 
 I 
 
 No, no, I Tee. 
 There is no remedy : . ^ , .i. 
 
 An heart, that wants both weight and wortti, 
 That's fiU'd with nought but empty hollownels. 
 And Tcrew'd afide with ft-ubborn wilfiilneis, 
 Is only fit to be caft forth, 
 Nor to be given me. 
 Nor kept by thee.. 
 
 2. 
 Then let it go; 
 And if thou wilt beftow 
 An acceptable heart on me, 
 ril furnifh thee with one fhall ferve the tuni> 
 Both to be kept and given : which will burn 
 With zeal, yet not confumed be : 
 Nor with a fcornful eye 
 Blaft ftanders-by. 
 
 Th0 
 
78 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 
 
 The heart, that I 
 Will give thee, though it lie 
 Biiry'd in Teas of forrows, yet 
 Will not be drown'd with doubt, or difcontent/ 
 Though fad complaints fometimes may give a veAft 
 To grief, and tears the cheeks may wet. 
 Yet it exceeds their art,. 
 To hurt his heart. . 
 
 The heart I give^ 
 Though it defire to live. 
 And bathe itfelf in all content,- 
 Yet will not toil, or taint itfelf with any ; 
 Although it take a view and tafte of many^ 
 It f<eeds on few, as though it meant ' 
 1^ breakfaft only here. 
 And dine eJfewhere» . 
 
 5- 
 
 This heart is frefh 
 And new : an heart of flefliV 
 Not, as thine old one was, of ftonCo . 
 A lively fp'ritly heart, and moving ftiil;, 
 A<^ive to what is good, but flow to ill : 
 An heart, that with a figh and groan 
 Can blaft all worldly joys, 
 As trifling toys. 
 
 This I 
 
THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 71 i 
 
 ■ 6- .1 
 
 This heart is found, i 
 
 And folid will be found; 1 
 
 'Tis not an empty airy flafti, ' 
 
 That baits at butterflies, and With full cry ; 
 
 Opens at ev'ry flirting vanity. 
 
 It flights and fcorns fuch paltry trafh : 
 But for eternity 
 Dares live or die, 
 
 ■7. \ 
 
 I know thy mind : 
 Thou feek'fl: content to find 
 In fuch things as are new and flrfangCi 
 Wander no further then : lay by thine old. 
 Take the new heart I give thee, and be boid' 
 To boaft thyfelf of the exchange, - -- *• 
 And fay, that a new heart 
 Exceeds all art. 
 
 - 01 3VlJ^/\ 
 
 The i 
 
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«d THE SCHOOL OF trfE HEART. 
 
 The Enlightening of the Heart. 
 
 Pfalm xxxiv. 5. 
 They looked on him^ and were lightened. 
 
 E P I G. 25. 
 
 CT'HOU that art Light of lights, the only Jighi 
 -*■ Of the blind world, lend me thy faving light : 
 Difperfe thofe rnifs whith in ?ny foul have mads 
 Darknefs ar deep as hell's eternal Jhade. 
 
 ODE XXV. 
 
 I. 
 
 Alas ! that I 
 Could not before efpy 
 The foul-confounding mifcry 
 Of this more than Egyptian dreadful night ! 
 
 To be deprived of the light, 
 And to have eyes, but eyes devoid of fight. 
 As mine have been, is iuch a woe. 
 As he alone can know 
 That feels it fo. 
 
 Darknefs has been 
 My God and me between, 
 Like an opacous doubled fcreen. 
 Thro* which nor light nor heat could paflage find. 
 
 Grofs ignorance hath made my mind 
 And underftcinding not blear-eye'd, but blind 3 
 My will to ail that's good is cold. 
 Nor can I, though I would, 
 Do what I faould. 
 
 No, 
 
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tHE SCHOOL OF TlIS HEART. 8i 
 
 3- 
 
 No, now I fee 
 There is no remedy 
 Left in myfelf : it cannot be 
 That blind men in the dark /hould find ths way 
 
 To bleflednefs : although they may 
 Imagine the high midnight is noon-day. 
 As I have done till now, they'll know 
 At iaft, unto their woe, 
 'Twas nothing fo. 
 
 4- 
 Ko\v I perceive 
 Prefumption doth bereave 
 Men of all hope of help, and leave 
 Them, as it finds them, drown'ci in mifery : 
 
 Dcfpairing of themfelves, to cry 
 For mercy, is the only remedy 
 
 That fm-fick foals can have ; to pray 
 Againft this darknefs, may 
 Turn it to day. 
 
 5* 
 
 Then unto thee. 
 Great Lord of light, let me 
 Direct my prayer, that I may fee. 
 Thou, that didft make mine eyes, canft foon reitorc 
 
 That pow'r of fight they had before. 
 And, if thou feeft it good, canft give them more. 
 The night will quickly (hine like day. 
 If thou do but difplay 
 One glorious ray. 
 
 [NMi] H Imui! 
 
82 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 
 
 6. 
 
 I muft confefs, 
 And I can do no lefs. 
 Thou art the Siin of rigbteoufnefs : 
 There's healing in thy wings ; thy light Is life 5 
 
 My darknefs death. To end all ftrife. 
 Be thou mine hufband, let me be thy wife. 
 So light and life divine 
 Will all be thine. 
 
 The 
 
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THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 83 
 
 The Table of the Heart. 
 
 Jer. xxxl. 33. 
 
 Iivil! put ?ny law i?: their inward parts ^ and write it' in 
 their hearts. 
 
 Epig. 26. 
 
 TN the f oft iahle of th'ne heart VU wrks 
 -^ A tiew law, which J will newly indite. 
 Hard flcny tables did contain the old : 
 But tender /eaves offlcfo Jhall this itifold^ 
 
 ODE XXVI. 
 
 I. 
 
 What will thy fight 
 Avail thee, or my light. 
 If thcfe'be nothing^in thine heart to fee 
 Acceptable to me ? 
 A felf-writ heart will not 
 Pleafg me, or do thee any good j I wot. 
 The paper niufl be thine. 
 The writing: mine. 
 
 o 
 
 2. 
 
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 'Tis I alone can write,! 
 
 And write in books that I niyfelf have made^ * - j 
 
 'Tis not an eafy trade, ~ 
 
 To ! ead or write in hearts : .\ 
 
 They that are fkilful in all other arts, \ 
 
 "When they take this in liand, I 
 
 Are at a fland. i 
 
 H 2 My i 
 
84 THE SCHOOL OF TK^E HEARl^i 
 
 My law of old 
 Tables of ftone did hold. 
 Wherein 1 \yrote what 1 before had fpoken^ 
 Yet were they quickly broken ; 
 A fign the covenant 
 Contained in them would due obfcrvance wanti 
 Nor did they long remain 
 Copy'd again. 
 
 But. now I'll try 
 What force in flcfh doth lie : 
 Whetherfthine heart renevvM afford a place 
 Fit for my hw of grace. 
 This covenant is better 
 Than that, though glorious, of the killing letter. 
 This gives life, not by merit. 
 But by my Spirit. 
 
 When in men's heart?. 
 And their moft inward parts, 
 1 by my Spirit write my law of love,. 
 They then begin to move. 
 Not by themfelves, but me, 
 ftnd th^ir obedience is their liberty. 
 
 There are no fiaves, but thofe 
 That ferve their foes. 
 
 When 
 
THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART, 85 , 
 
 When I have writ 
 My covenant in it. 
 View thine heart by my light, and thou flialc fee 
 A prefent fit for me. 
 The worth, for which I look, 
 i,ies in the lines, not in the leaves of th' book, • 
 Coarfe paper may be line'd 
 With words reiine'd ; 
 
 And fuch ardmine. 
 No furnace can* refine ' 
 The cholceft filvcr fo, to make it pure, . 
 As my law put irt 'urc ' ^ 
 Purgeth the .hearts of meb : 
 Whi^h being rule'd, and written^ with my pe: 
 My Spirit^ evVy letter 
 
 Will make them. bctt:-. 
 
 h - 
 

 f86 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART: 
 The Tilling of the Heart. 
 
 Ezek. xxxvi. 9. 
 
 / wil/ turn unto you^ and ye Jkall be tilled andfowm . ■ 
 
 E P I G. 274 
 7\/rlHE heart's a fields il^ crcfs a plough : he pleas' d^ 
 Dear SpouJ}, to till it, till the ?nould be raised 
 Fit for the feeding of .thy word: then foiu^ 
 And if thou Jhine upon it^ it will grow ^ 
 
 ODE xxvn. 
 
 I. 
 
 So now methinlcs I fi^d 
 Some better vigour in my mind ; 
 My will begins to move, 
 And mine, afFedions ftir towards things above: 
 ^,Ilne heart.grows big with hope ; it is a field 
 That Tome good frwit may yield. 
 If it were tilTd as itfhould be. 
 Not by myfelf,. but thee. 
 
 Great Hufbandman, whofe pow'r 
 AU difficulties can devour. 
 And do what likes thee beft, 
 /■■ not thy field, my heart, lie by,, and relV; , 
 ^. ^t i: be over run with noifome weeds. 
 
 That fpring of their own feeds : 
 Unlefs thy grace the growth fh )uld il^p. 
 Sin would be ail my crop, 
 
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XUE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. St 
 
 Break up my fallow ground. 
 That there may not a clod be founds 
 To hide one root of fin. 
 pply. thy plough betime : now^ now begin 
 o furrow up my ftifFand ftarvy heart j 
 No matter for the fmart. 
 Although it roar, when it is rent. 
 Let not thine hand relent.. 
 
 Corruption's rooted deep^. 
 Showers of repentant tears nnift'fleep 
 The mould, to make it foft : 
 muft be ftirr'd, and turn'd, not once, but oft., 
 t it have all its feafons, O impart 
 The beft of all thine art: 
 For of itfelf it is fo tough. 
 All will be but enouiih.. 
 
 Or, if it be thy will 
 To teach me, let mc learn the {kill' 
 Mylclfto plow mine heart : 
 e profit will be mine, and 'tis my part 
 take the p2\:\^^ andilabour, though th' increafo- 
 \Vtthout thy bleiTing ceafe : 
 \i fi: Tor nothing elie, yet thou, 
 I^Jiy'il mike me draw thy plough: 
 
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Sar THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART; 
 
 Which of thy ploughs thou wilt. 
 For thou haft more than one. ^ My guilt 
 Thy wrath, thy roos, are all 
 FlouP-hs fit to tear mine heart to purees fmall ; 
 And when, in thefe, it apprehends thee near, 
 'Tis furrowed with fear : 
 Each weed, turn'd under, hides its head 
 And (hews as it were dead. 
 
 7- 
 
 Bat, Lord, thy blefied pafTion 
 Is a plough of another fafhion. 
 Better than all the reft. 
 Oh- faftea me to that, and let the reft 
 Of nil my powers ftrive to draw it in. 
 And leave no room for im. 
 The virtue of thy death can makcj 
 i^in its fail hold foriake. , 
 
J-.'/u/.jfV. 
 
 SKivtnsrATio ix Cor . 
 
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THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 8^ 
 
 The Seeding of the Heart- 
 Luke vili. 15. 
 
 Thai on the good ground are they^ whichy with an honeji 
 aid good hearty having heard the word^ keep it^ and 
 hrlng fcrih fruit with patience. . 
 
 E.PtG. 28; 
 
 XE^^ the field of mine heart Jhould unto thee^ 
 Great Hujhandman that made'fl it^ barren he^ 
 Manure the ground^ then come thy felf and feed itj 
 And let thyfervants water it and weed it. 
 
 O D E XXVIIL 
 
 Nay, blefled Lord, 
 Unlefs thou wilt afford 
 Manure, as well as tillage, to thy field. 
 
 It will not yield 
 That fruit which thou expe£left it fhould bear: 
 
 The ground, I fear. 
 
 Will ftill remain. 
 Barren of what is good : and all the grain 
 
 It will bring forth. 
 As of its own accord, will not be worth 
 The pains of gathering 
 
 So poor a thing. ^ 
 
 Sooae. 
 
^b THE SCHOOL OF THE HE ARTr 
 
 2. 
 Some faint define. 
 That quickly will expire, 
 Wither, and die, is all thou canft expeil. 
 
 ■ if i hou negle6l 
 ' To fow it iiQW 'tis ready, thou ft alt find 
 That it will bind. 
 And harder grow 
 Than at the firft it was. Thou muft beilo^'- 
 . Some further coft, 
 
 Elfe all thy former labour will be loft. 
 Mine heart no corn will breed!' 
 Without thy feed,. 
 
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 Thy word is feed. 
 And manure too : wrll feed, 
 A6 well as fill nriine heart. If once it were 
 
 Well rooted there. 
 It would come on apace : 'O then negle£l 
 
 No time : eXpe^l 
 
 No better feafon. 
 Now, -now thy field mine heart is ready : reafosj^ 
 
 Surrenders now, 
 Novr my rebellious will begins to bow* . 
 And min& affections are. 
 
 Tamer by far. 
 
 4. ' 
 Lord, I have lain 
 Barren too long, and fain 
 I would redeem the time, that I may be 
 Fruitful to thee J , 
 
 Fruitful 
 
THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 91 ^ 
 
 Fruitful in knowledge, faith, obedience, 1 
 
 Ere I go hepce : , . '. 
 
 That when I come 
 At harveft to be reaped, aud brought homp, 
 
 Thine angels may , 
 My foul in thy celeftial garner lay. 
 
 Where perfedl joy and bHfs 
 
 Eternal i.s. i 
 
 5' \ 
 
 If to intreat i 
 
 A crop, of pureft wheat, ' 
 A blefling tod tranfcendent fhould appear 
 
 For me to hear, 1 
 
 iLord, make me what thou wilt^ fothou wilt take I 
 
 What thou doft make, \ 
 
 And not difclain \ 
 
 To houfe me, though ^mong thy c^arfefl;. grain ^ \ ] 
 
 ^ ' So Irrtay'be '' " '■'' " ' "', • " * 
 
 iLaid with the gleanings gathered by thee,. j 
 
 When the full {heaves are fpent, i 
 
 I am cement. 
 
 The 
 
<5^ THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART, 
 The W A T E R 1 N G of the Heart. 
 
 Ifaiah xxvii. 3. 
 7 the Lord do keep it : I will water it every moment, 
 
 E^P I G. 29. 
 
 Y^LO S E downwards toiu*rds the earth, open above ^ 
 ^^ Towards heav'tjy mine heart is, O let thy kvc 
 Dijlill in fru6lifying dews of grace ^ 
 And then minit heart wiU be apleafani place, 
 
 ODE XXIX. 
 
 See how this dry and thirfty land. 
 Mine heart, doth ga^ung, gafping ftand. 
 
 And, clofe below, opens towVds heav'n and thee. 
 Thou Fountain of Felicity, 
 
 Great Lord of living waters, water me : 
 
 Let not my breath, that pants with pain> 
 Wade and confume itfelf in vain. 
 
 The mifls, that from the earth do rlfe^ 
 An heav'n-born heart will not fuffice : 
 
 Cool It without they may, but cannot quench 
 The fcalding heat within, nor drench 
 
 Its dufty drr defires, or fill one trench. 
 
 Nothing, but what comes from on highj 
 Can heav'n-brcd longings fatisfy. 
 
 See 
 
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 Cordis Iriugatio 
 
THE SCHOOL OP THE H BART. 93 
 
 3- 
 
 See how the feed, which thou -didn: fow. 
 Lies parch'd, and wither'di will not grow 
 
 Without ibme moiilure, and mine heart hath none 
 That it can truly c.ili its own, 
 
 By nature of itfelf, n^iore than a flone : 
 Uijlefs thou water 't, it will.iie 
 Drowned in di+Ii:, and fi.ill be dry. 
 
 Thy tender plants can never thrive, 
 Whilft want of water doth deprive 
 Their roots of nouriilinient : wh,lch makes them call 
 
 And cry to thee, great All in All, 
 That {eafonable fliow'rs of grace may fall. 
 
 And water them: thy word will do't. 
 If thou vouchfafe thy bleifing to 't. 
 
 5. 
 O then be pleafed to un.'eal 
 Thy fountain, blelTed Saviour; de?A 
 
 Some drops at leafl, wherewith my cirooping fpir'ts 
 May be revived. Lord, thy merits 
 
 YieJd more refrelhing than the world inherits : 
 Rivers, yea feas, but ditches are. 
 If with, ihy fprings we them compare, 
 
 6. 
 
 If not full fhcw'rs of rain, yet. Lord, 
 
 A little pearl V dew afford, 
 Begot by thy celeftial influence 
 
 On fome challe vapour, raifed hence 
 To be partaker of thine excellence : 
 
 A little, if it come from thee. 
 
 Will be of great avail to me. 
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94 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 
 
 7- 
 
 Thou boundlcfs Ocean of grace, 
 
 Let thy free Spirit have a place 
 Within mine heart : full rivers, then, I know. 
 
 Of living waters, forth will flow ; 
 And all thy plants, thy fruits, thy flow'rs will grow. 
 
 Whilft thy fprings their roots do nourim. 
 
 They muft needs be fat, and flourifh* 
 
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THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. ^5 
 Ths F t o w E R 5 of the Henrt, 
 
 Cant, vi. 2. 
 
 ,1/^ Behvdhgm d'Ain into his garden, U the has cf 
 fpicef, to feed in the gardens, and to gathir liUes. 
 
 E P I G. 30. 
 
 rHESE lilies I da conpcrat^ io thie, 
 Qui §fmfid fknjm^d/i j md m grmui 
 
 Is there a joy like this? 
 
 What can augment my biiis f 
 If my Beloved will accept 
 A poly of thefe flowers, kept 
 And confeGrated unto his content, 
 I hope hereafter he will not repent 
 
 The coil and pains he hath beltow d 
 So freely upon me, that ow'd 
 Him all I had before. 
 And innnitely more. 
 
 I 1 ^'av. 
 
96 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART, 
 
 2. 
 
 Nay, try them, blefTed Lord ; 
 Take them not on my word, 
 But let the colour, taile, and fmellj 
 The truth of their perfedtions teii, ' 1 : 
 Thou that art infinite in wifdorn, fee .qio VJ 
 if they be not the fame that came froaicthee"*^ 
 If any difference be found ,^ lo jiA* 
 It is occaiion'd by the ground. 
 Which yet 1 cannot fee 
 So crcod as it fhould be* 
 
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 What fiiy'fl thou to that Rafc, 
 That queen of fiowers, whoff!' ;' 
 Maiden bluihesj frcih and fair. 
 Outbrave the dainty morning air t 
 Dofl thou not in thof^ lovely leaves efpy. 
 Tiie ptTrecl pi<fture of .that modeft)'-. 
 
 That fclf- eonderiii I ir.g ^{hatnefacediiefs^' 
 That is mere ready to confefs 
 -A fault, and to. amend, 
 'i'hun it is to offend ? 
 
 -. 4- 
 Is not this lily pure ? 
 What fuller can procure 
 A white fo.perfcdf, fpotlefs, clear. 
 As in this flovi^er doth appear ? 
 Doft thou not in this milky colour fee 
 The lively luftr£ of fmcerity. 
 
 Which no hypocrify hath painted. 
 Nor faif- refpciiing ends have tainted ? 
 Can there be to thy fight 
 A more intire delight ? 
 
 Or 
 
THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 97 
 
 5- 
 
 Or wilt thou have, beflde, 
 
 Violets purple-dy'd ? 
 The fun-obferving marigold. 
 Or orpin never waxing old. 
 The primrofe, cowflip, gilliflow'r, or pink. 
 Or any flbw'r, or h^rb, that I can think 
 Thou haft a mind unto ? I fliall 
 Quickly be furniih'd with them all, 
 
 If once I do but know 
 
 That thou wilt have it {O0 
 
 Faith is a fruitful grace. 
 Well-planted, ftores the place, 
 Fills all the borders, beds, and bowVs, 
 With wholefome herbs and pleafant fiowVs : 
 Great Gardener, thou fay'ft, and I believe. ^ 
 What thou doft mean to gather, thou wilt give. 
 Take, then, mine heart in hand, to tili't,. 
 And it fhall yield thee what thou wilt. 
 Yea thou, by gathering more, 
 Shaic ftill increaie my ftore. 
 
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 98 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 
 The Keeping of, the Heart, 
 
 Prov. iv. 2?. 
 Keep ihy heart with all diligence i. 
 
 £) p I G. 31. 
 
 T IKE to a garden that is chfed rsu7id, 
 ■^-^ ThiM heart-is fafely kept^ which Ji ill is foukid 
 Compafs'd with care^ and guarded with the fear 
 Of God^ as zvit}> a flaming f%v or d andfpear-, 
 
 ODE XXXI. 
 
 *The Soldi r. 
 
 Lord, wilt thou fufFer this? Shall vermin fpoil 
 
 The fruit of all thy toil. 
 Thy trees, thine herbs, thy plants, thy flow'rs thus;. 
 
 And, for an overplus 
 Of-fpi:e and maHce, overthrow thy mounds. 
 
 Lay common all thy grounds ? 
 Canft thou endure thy pleafant garden fliould 
 Be thus turn'd up as ordinary mould ?• 
 
 Chri/l. 2,. 
 
 What is the matter ? why doll- thou complain ? 
 
 Muft I as v/ell maintain, 
 And keep, as make thy fences ? wilt thou take 
 
 No pains for thine own fake ? 
 Or doth thy fclf-confounding fancy fear thee,. 
 
 When there's no danger near thee ? 
 Speak out thy doubts, and thy defires, and tell me,. 
 What enemy or can or d_ares co quell thee ? 
 
Cordis Cx stoi:>lv 
 
 jyerj-^ir/v mzifiit ^uern Ti/nor^ f/tse J)ri 
 
,;ja ^r. 
 
THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 99 
 
 The Soul. J. 
 
 Many, and n^lghty, and malicious, Lord, 
 
 That fcelc, with one accord. 
 To work my fpeedy ruin, and make hafte 
 
 To lay thy garden vvafle. 
 The devil is a ramping roaring lion. 
 
 Hates at his heart thy Zion, 
 And- never gives it rcipite day nor hour. 
 But iViligoes fceking whom he m?.y devour* 
 
 The world'5' a wildernefs, wherein T find 
 
 Wild beafts of every kind. 
 Foxes, and v/olves, and dogs, and boars, and bears; 
 
 And, which augments my fears, 
 Eagles and vultures, and fuch birds cf prey. 
 
 Will not be kept away : 
 Befides the light-abhorring owls and bats. 
 And fecret-corner- creeping. mice and rats. 
 
 Bat thefe, and many more, would not difmay 
 
 iVle mxuch,. unlefs there lay 
 One worfe tlian all within, myfelf I mean^ 
 
 My falfe,. unjuf]-, unclean, 
 Faithlefs, difioyal felf, that both entice 
 
 And entertain each vice. 
 This home-bred traiterous partaking's v/orfe 
 Than all the violence of foreiiin force. 
 
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100 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART, 
 
 Lord, thou may*fl: fee my fears are groundedj rife 
 Not from a bare lurmife, , 
 
 Or doubt of danger only, my defires 
 Are but what need requires. 
 
 Of thy divine proteftion and defence 
 To keep thefe vermin hence : 
 
 Which, if they fhould not be reftrain'd by thee. 
 
 Would grow too flrong to be kept out by me. 
 
 Chrift. 7. 
 
 Thy fear Is juft-, and 1 approve thy care* 
 
 But yet thy comforts are 
 Provided for, ev'n in that care and. fear : 
 
 Whereby it doth appear 
 Thou haft virhat thou defireft, my prote£lion. 
 
 To keep thee from defedion. 
 The heart that cares and fears, is kept by me. 
 1 watch thee,, whilft thy foes are watch'd by thee. 
 
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 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. loi j 
 
 The Watching of the HearU 
 
 Cant. V. 2. 
 I Jleep^ hut my heart waketh, 
 
 E P I G. 32. 
 
 TTT^// / L vS T the fcft b.inf^j of /lee p tie up my fcnfeSy. '. 
 ^ My watchful heart, free from allfuch pretences y 
 
 Searches for thee,, ing^ires of all about thee, \ 
 
 Nor day, nor nighty able to be uuithout tliee, .' 
 
 ODE XXXII. 
 
 It muft be fo : that God that gave 
 Mefenfes, and a mind, would have 
 Me ufe them both, but in their feveral kinds. 
 
 Sleep tnUft rerre?h my fet^/ei, Kut my mlnr^'q 
 
 A fparkle of heav'nly fire, that feeds 
 On a6libn and employment, needs 
 No time of reft : for, when it thinks to pleafe 
 Itfelf with idlenefs, 'tis lead at eafe. 
 
 Though quiet reft refrefti the head. 
 The heart, that ftirs not, fure is dead. 
 
 Whilft, then, ray body eafe doth take. 
 My reft- refufing heart fliall wake : 
 
 And that mine heart the better watch may keep, 
 
 I'll lay my fenfes for a time to fleep. 
 
 Wanton 
 
102 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART, 
 
 Wanton dcfires fliall not entice. 
 Nor luft inveigle them to vice : 
 No fading colours fhall allure my fightj 
 Nor founds enchant mine ears with their delight 
 ril bind my fmell, my touch, my tafte. 
 To keep a ftri(Sl religious faft. 
 
 My worldly bufinefs fhall lie flill, 
 
 That heav'nly thoughts my mind may fill *. 
 
 My Martha's cumb'ring cares illall C€afe their n6ift.V 
 
 That Mary may attend htf better choice. 
 Thae mditation ffiiiy advsncg 
 My heart ©n put'pofe, net by ehinet* 
 
 My body ihal! keep holy day, that Co 
 
 My mind with better liberty tmy go 
 
 About her bufmefs, and ingrofs 
 
 That gain which worldly men count lo^*^ 
 
 And though my fenfes ficcp the while, ^ 
 
 My mind my fenfes fhall beguile ■ 
 
 With dreams of thee, dear Lord, whofe rare per fc£i:Ion5 j 
 
 Of excellence are fuch, that Hire infpe<3:ions ,! 
 
 Cannot iuffire my greedy foul, ^'. 
 
 Nor her fierce appetite controul ; 1^ 
 
 But that the more flie looks, the more fhe longs, U. 
 
 And ftfives to thruit into the thickeft throngs -^ 
 
 Of thofe divine difcoveries ''J. 
 
 Which dazzle even angels* eyes. J: 
 
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THE SCHOQI. OF THE HEART. X03 
 
 Oh could I lay afide this flefli. 
 
 And follow after thee with fredi 
 And free defires ! my difentangled foul, 
 Ravifh'd with admiration, fhould roll 
 
 Itfelf and all its though.s on thee. 
 
 And, by believing, Itrive to fee 
 What is invifible to flefn and blood. 
 And only by fruition undcrftood, 
 
 The beauty of each fev*ral gface, 
 
 That fhines in thy fun fbamcing face, 
 
 6. 
 
 But what I can do that I will. 
 Waking and fieeping, feelc thee flill : 
 
 I'll leave no place unpry'd into behind me. 
 
 Where I can but imagine I may find thee : 
 m alk of all I natet, if they 
 Can tell me where thou art, which way 
 
 Thou go'fl:, that I nray follow after thee, [me. 
 
 Which v/ay thou com'ft, that thou may'ft meet with 
 If not thy face. Lord, let mine heart 
 Behold with Mofes thy back part. 
 
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JL04 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. J 
 
 The Wounding of the Heart. i 
 
 Lam., iii. 12. j 
 
 He hath bent his bciu, and Jet me as a fuark for the ' 
 arroiu, 
 
 Epig. 33. 
 
 /lT^hou[andofthyJirongeJl,J})aft$^ my Light ^ j 
 
 ^^ Draw up agalnji this heart with all thy mighty ^ 
 
 Andjirike it through : they^ that in need dojhmd \ 
 
 Of cure, are healed by thy wounding hand, < 
 
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 ODE XXXIIL 
 
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 Nay, fpare me not, dear Lord, it cannot be \ 
 
 They fhould be hurt, that wounded are bv thee, \ 
 
 Thy fhafts will heal the hearts they hit, | 
 
 And to each fore its falve will fit. \ 
 All hearts by nature are both Tick and lore, 
 And mine as much as any elfe, or more : 
 
 There is no place that's free from fin; 
 
 Neither without it, nor within \ 
 
 And univerfal maladies do crave \ 
 Variety of medicines to have. 
 
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 2. j 
 
 Firft, kt the arrow of thy piercing eye, ' 
 
 Whofe light outvicth the flar-fpanglcd fkv, \ 
 Strike through the darknefs of my mind, 
 
 And leave no cloudy mill behind, ,j 
 
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THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 105 
 
 Let thy refplendent rays of knowledge dart 
 Bright beams of underftanding to mine heart. 
 
 To my fm-ftiadow'd heart, wherein 
 
 Black ignorance did firft begin 
 To blur thy beauteous image, and deface 
 The glory of thy felf-fufficing grace. 
 
 Next let the ftiaft of thy fnarp-pointed pow*r, 
 Difchar^ed by that ftrength that can devour 
 
 All difficulties, and incline 
 
 Stout oppofition to refign 
 Its fteelly flubbornnefs, fubdue my will. 
 Make it hereafter ready to fulfill 
 
 Thy royal law of righteoufnefs. 
 
 As gladly as, I muft confefs. 
 It hath fulfilled heretofore th*unju{l. 
 Profane, and cruel laws of its own lufl. 
 
 Then let that love of thine, v/hich made thee leave 
 The bofom of thy Father, and bereave 
 
 Thyfelf of thy tranfcendcnt glory 
 
 (Matter for an eternal ftory !), 
 Strike through mine afFedions all together. 
 And let that fun-fhine clear the cloudy weather. 
 
 Wherein they wander without guide, • 
 
 Or order, as the wind and tide 
 Of floating vanities tranfport and tofs them, 
 Till fclf-begotten troubles curb and crofs them. 
 
 [NO 12] K Lord, 
 
xo6. THE SCHOOL OF THE PIEART. 
 
 Lord, empty all thy quivers, let there be 
 No corner of my fpacious heart left free. 
 Till alll>e but one wound, wherein 
 No fubtle fight-abhorring fin 
 May lurk in fecret unefpy'd by me. 
 Or reign in pow'r unfubdu'd by thee. 
 Perfect thy purchas'd vi<5lory. 
 That thou may'ft ride triumphantly. 
 And, leading captive all captivity, 
 May'ft put an end to enmity in me. 
 
 Then, blefled archer, in requital, I 
 To (hoot thine arrows back again will try; 
 By pray'rs and praifes, fighs and fobs. 
 By vows and tears, by groans and throbs, 
 ril fee if I can pierce and wound thine heart. 
 And vanquifli thee again by thine own art. 
 Or, that we may at once provide 
 For all mif-haps that may betide, 
 Shoot thou thyfeir, thy polilh'd fhaft, to me. 
 And 1 will flioot my broken heart to thee. 
 
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 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 107 
 
 The Inhabiting of the Hseart* 
 
 Gal. W. 6. 
 God hath fetit forth the Spirit of his Sen into ycur hearts, 
 
 Epic. 34, 
 
 71/Tl i^E heart's an houfe^ my Lights and thou eanfl te 
 -* ^^ There's room enough^ let thy Spirit dvjell 
 For ever there: thatfi thou may'fi U'Ue me^ 
 Jndy bein^ Uv'd, J may again love thee. 
 
 ODE XXXIV. 
 
 Welcome, great gueft, this houfej'mlne hearf, 
 Shall ail be thine : 
 T will refign 
 Mine intereft in ev'ry part : 
 Only be pleas'd to ufe it as thine own 
 For ever, and inhabit it alop 
 There's room enough j anc^, the furniture 
 Were anfwerabiy fitted, I r fure 
 
 Thou wr ulrl'ft be vci' ontent to ftay, 
 Ai.'-i, by thy h'L'hs 
 PofT fs my fight 
 With feni'e of an eternal day. 
 
 2. 
 
 It is thy building, Lord j 'twas made 
 At thy command, 
 And ftiil doth {^and 
 Upheld and (helter'd by the (hade 
 Of thy protecling providence , though fuch "^ 
 As is decayed and impaired much, 
 
 K 2 Since 
 
io8 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 
 
 Since the removal of thy refidence, 
 When, with thy grace, glory departed hence : 
 It hath been all this while an ina 
 
 To entertain /fit juw nodi '). i;jf\ 
 The vile, and vain. 
 And wicked companies of fin. 
 
 3- 
 
 Although't be but an houfe of clay, 
 Frame'd out of duft. 
 And fuch as muit 
 DifTolved be, yet it was gay 
 And glorious indeed, when ev*ry place 
 Was furniihed and fitted with thy grace : 
 When, in the prefence-chamber of my mind, 
 The bright fun- beams of perfect knowledge fbineM ; 
 When my will was thy bed-chamber. 
 
 And ev'ry pow'f . ^ 
 
 A {lately tow*r ^ 
 
 Sweetened with thy Spirit's amber, \ 
 
 4* 
 
 But whilfl thou doft thyfelf abfcnt, 
 It is not grown 
 Noifomc alone, 
 'But all to pieces torn and rent. 
 The windows all are ftopt, or broken fOf 
 That no light without wind can thorough go. 
 The roofs uncovered, and the wall's decay'd. 
 The door's flung off the hoolcs, the floor's unlay'd ; 
 Yea, the foundation rotten is. 
 And every-where 
 It doth appear 
 All that remains is far amifs. 
 
 But 
 
THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART., 109 
 
 But if thou wilt return agaiit^t-j , 
 And dwell in me, . ,, /^(j. ^jn'i 
 Lord, thou fhak fe^rnoi b^iotw hnh 
 What care I'll take to entertain 
 Thee, though not like thyfelf, yet in fucb fort 
 As thou wilt like, and I fhall thank thee for't. 
 Lord, let thy blefTed Spirit keep pofleiHon, 
 And all things will be well : at leaft, confeiEon 
 Shall tell thee what's amifs in me. 
 And then thou (halt 
 Or mend the fault. 
 Or take the blame of ^ onfheei ' 
 
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no THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 
 
 The Enlarging of the Heart. '4 
 
 Pfalni cxlx. 32. j 
 
 / luill run the vjay of thy commandments^ when tkcu Jhdlt 
 
 enlarge my heart, : 
 
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 E p I G. 35. i 
 
 J J TV pkafant is that now, which heretofore \ 
 
 -^ -^ Mine heart held bitter^ [acred learning s lore I \ 
 
 Enlarged hearts enter with greatefi eafe \ 
 
 Thejlraitcfi paths, and run the narrowefi ways, '* 
 
 ODE XXXV. ^ 
 
 What a blcfTcd change I find, i 
 
 Since I entertain'd this gucft ! 
 Now methinks iinothcr mind \ 
 
 Moves and rules within my breafl-. " \ 
 
 Surely I am not the iame 
 That I was before he came. 
 But I then was much to biame. 
 
 2. i 
 
 When, before, my God commanded 
 
 Any thing he would have done, 
 I was clofe and gripplc-hauded. 
 Made an end ere i begun. 
 
 If bethought it fit to hiy \ 
 
 Judgm.ents on m.e, I could fay, - ■ 
 
 i'hey are good \ but fhriiik away, j 
 
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THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART, iii: 
 
 3- 
 
 All the ways of righteournefs 
 
 I did think were full of trouble ; 
 I complain'd of tedioufnefs. 
 And each duty feemed double. 
 
 V/hiift r ferv'd him but of fear,. 
 Ev'ry minute did appear 
 Longer far than a w^hole year. 
 
 4- 
 Strlclnefs in religion feemed 
 
 Like a pined, pinion'd thing; 
 Bolts and fetters f efteemed 
 More befccming for a king. 
 
 Than for me to bow my neck. 
 
 And be at another's beck, 
 
 When I felt my confcieace check. . 
 
 5- 
 
 But the cafe is alter'd now : 
 
 Fie no fooner turns his eye. 
 But I quickly bend, and bow. 
 Ready zt his feet to lie : 
 
 Love hath taught me to obey 
 All his precepts, and to fay. 
 Not to-morrow, but to-day. 
 
 6. . 
 What he wills, I fay I muft : 
 ^ What I muft, I fay I will : 
 He commanding:, it is juli 
 
 Wnat he would I fhould fwlfill. 
 Whilft he biddeth, I believe 
 What he calls for, he will give. 
 To obey him, is to live. 
 
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112 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 
 
 7- 
 His commandments grievous are not. 
 
 Longer than men think, them fo : 
 Though he fend me forth, I care not, 
 \jVhilft he gives me ftrength to go. 
 When, or whither, all is one. 
 On his bus'nefs, not mine own, 
 I ihall never go alone. 
 
 If 1 be complete in him. 
 
 And in him all fullnefs dvvelleth, 
 I am fure aloft to fwim, 
 
 Whjlft that Ocean overfwelleth. 
 Having Him that's All in all, 
 I am confident I fhall 
 Nothing want, for which I call. 
 
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THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 113 
 
 The Inflaming of the Heart, 
 
 Pfalm xxxix. 3. 
 
 My heart was hot within me : while I was mufmgy the 
 fire burned. 
 
 Epic. 36. 
 
 OPAR E mty my Loi/e, to kindle and inflame 
 ^ Mine heart within throughoufy until the fame 
 Break forth ^ and burn : that fo thi falamander ^ 
 Mim hmrt^ m&y never from thy furnau wander^ 
 
 ODE XXXVI. 
 
 Welcome, holy, hcav'nly fire. 
 
 Kindled by immortal loVe : 
 
 Which, defcending from above, 
 Makes all earthly thoughts retire, ^\ 
 
 And give place 
 
 To that grace, * 
 
 Which, with gentle violence. 
 
 Conquers all corrupt affections, ^ 
 
 Rebel nature's infurredlions, 3. 
 
 Bidding them be packing hence, 
 
 2, 
 
 Lord, thy fire doth heat within, 
 Warmeth not without alone ; 
 Though it be an heart of flone. 
 Of itfelf congeal'd in fin. 
 Hard as fteel, 
 If it feel 
 
 Thy 
 
j^/4 THE SCHOOL 0F THE HEART; 
 
 Thy diflblving pow'r, it groweth ^^ 
 
 Soft as wax, and quickly takes ;'^ ^ y^ 
 
 ny print thy Spirit majccs. 
 Paying what thou iay'ft it oweth. 
 
 3. '^^'^^ 
 
 Of itfeir mine heart is dark 5 
 
 But thy fire, by /hining bright. 
 
 Fills it full of faving light. 
 
 Though *t be but a little fpark 
 
 L^t by thee, :^*^^ 
 
 I {hall fee 
 
 More by It, than all the light, 
 
 Which in fullrft meafurei ftrcams ^^ . „. ^-^ix^ 
 1? .1 t I 3iofR bni:; aioivi 
 
 From corrupted nature's beamg, ,, ._ . -^j 
 
 Can difcover to my fight. 
 
 4' 
 Though mine heart be ice and fnow 
 To the things which thou haft chofen, 
 All benumb'd with cold, and frozen, 
 Yet thy fire will make it glow. 
 Though it burns. 
 When it turns 
 Tow'rds the things which thou dofl: hate : 
 Yet thy blefTed warmth, no doubt. 
 Will that wild-fire foon draw out. 
 And the heat thereof abate. 
 
 5- 
 
 Lord, thy fire is a£live, ufing 
 
 Always either to afcend 
 
 To its native heav'n, or lend 
 Heat to others : and difFufing 
 
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Tflf SCHOOL GTF THBHEAAtJ 115 
 
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 Gathers more, ^ i\o6 
 
 Never ceafing til i; n\r' ** . lA 
 
 All thin::s Lice «.f : iOngingr . j^i^^iy/ gni'{r..'' 
 
 To fee others com<.' ":ruii^::ig 
 
 Of thy goodnefa to partaieft. 
 
 6-. 
 
 V; 
 
 LorJ, then let thy fireiaflame 
 
 Mv coM heart (b thoroughly. 
 
 That the heat may never die. 
 But continue ftill the fame : 
 
 That I may ^^ 
 
 tv'ry day 4 
 More and more, confuming fin, 
 
 Kindling others, zn^ attending 
 
 All occaiions of al'cending, 
 Heaven upon earth- begin. 
 
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ii6 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 
 The Ladder of the Heart. 
 
 Pfalm Ixxxiv, 5, 
 In whofs heart are the wayi of them, 
 
 E p I G. 37. 
 
 TJ/'^^^^ft t^ouy my love^ a ladder have^ whereby 
 ^^ Thou maylfl climb heaven^ to Jit down on high P 
 In thine own hearty then^ frame theejieps^ and bend 
 ny mind to mufe how thou maffi there afcend. 
 
 ODE xxxvn. 
 
 7he Soul. I. 
 
 What I 
 Shall I 
 Always lie 
 Grov'ling on earth, 
 Where there is no mirth ? 
 Why ihould I not afcend 
 And climb up, where I may mend 
 My mean eftate of mifery ? 
 Happinefs, I know, *s exceeding high : 
 Yet fure there is fome remedy for that. 
 
 Chrifi. 2. 
 
 True, 
 There is. 
 Perfeablifs 
 May be had above : 
 But he, that will obtain 
 Such a gold-exceeding gain, 
 Muft never think to reach the fame. 
 And fcale heav'n's walls, until he frame 
 A ladder in his heart as near as iiew. 
 
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 The SotiL 3. i 
 
 Lord, 
 
 I will : 
 But the (kill '. 
 Is not mine own : ^ 
 
 Such an art's not known^ 
 Unlefs thou wilt it teach : I 
 
 It is far. above the reach \ 
 
 Of mortal minds to underftand. \ 
 
 But if thou wilt lend thine helping hand^ ! 
 
 I will endeavour to obey thy word, ] 
 
 Chrijh 4. i 
 
 Weil 
 Then, fee 
 That thou be 
 As ready preft i 
 
 7'o perform the refi-, '. 
 
 .As now to promife fair ; 
 And I'll teach i^az^^ hov/ to rear i 
 
 A fcaling-ladder in thine heart '. 
 
 To mount heaven v/ith : no rules of art. 
 
 But I alone, can the compofure tell. \ 
 
 i 
 
 Firft, ^ 
 Thou muft 
 
 Take on truft \ 
 All that I fay ; 
 
 Reafon mull: not fv/ay i 
 
 Thy judgment crofs to mine, ' 
 
 But her fceptre quite refign. ' \ 
 
 Faith muft be b :th thy ladder fides, ■] 
 Which will ftay thy fteps whate'er betides. 
 
 And fatisfy thine hunger, and thy thirft. i 
 
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./i8 THE SCHOOL OF TH£ HEART. 
 
 6. 
 
 ^ Then, 
 The round 
 Next the grouii'j. 
 Which I muft fee ; 
 Is Humility : 
 From which thou mud afcendy 
 And with perfcverance end. 
 Virtue to virtue, grace to grice, 
 MuiJ each orJerlv fucceed in *ts place ; 
 And when thou bafi done all, begiii agaia. 
 
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THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 119 
 
 The F L Y I N' o of the Heart* 
 
 Ifaiah ix. 8. 
 
 i^ho- are thefe that fy as a chucl^ and as the d^ves i') 
 their windows ? 
 
 E P I G. 38. 
 
 /^ H that mine hiart had ivings like to a doVe, 
 ^ T'hot I might quickly hajien hence^ and mov& 
 ^Viih fpcedy flight towards the celejiial fpheres^ 
 As vSiurj of this ivarld^ its faults and fear 5% 
 
 ODE XXXVIII. 
 
 This way, though pleafant, yet methinks is lor*^: 
 Step after ftep, makes Jittle hafte. 
 And r am not fo ftrong 
 As ftill to lad 
 Among 
 So great 
 So many lets : 
 SweJter'd and fwlUM m fweat, 
 My toiling foul both fumes and frets. 
 As though fhe wei-e incline'd to a retreat. 
 
 L 2 Cor« 
 
120 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 
 
 2. 
 
 Corruption clogs my feet like filthy clay,, 
 And I am ready flill to flip : 
 Which makes me often ftay. 
 When Ifhould trip 
 Away. 
 My fears 
 And faults are fuch. 
 As challenge all my tears 
 So juftly, that it Werd^not much, 
 If I in weepjng (ho.uld fpend all my. years. . 
 
 3- 
 This makes me weary of the world below, 
 And greedy of a place abovCj 
 On which I may befbw 
 My cl>oiceft love. 
 And fo 
 Obtain 
 That favour,- which 
 Excells vM worldly gain, 
 And makcth thfe poflcfibr rich 
 In happinefa of a tranfcendent ftrain. 
 
 *4- * . ' 
 
 V7hat 1 muf: I ftill be rooted here below,. 
 And riveted unto the' ground, . 
 Wherein mine hafte to groM^ 
 Will be, though found, 
 But flow ?■ 
 • I know 
 The fun exhales 
 Grofs vapours from below. 
 Which, fcorning as it were the vales, 
 On'^ountain-topping cloiids theii-iiclvcs beftow. 
 
 But 
 
THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART, izi 
 
 5- 
 
 But my fault-frozen heart is flow to move. 
 Makes poor proceedings at the beft. 
 As though it did not love. 
 Nor long for reft 
 Above. 
 Mine eyes 
 Can upward look, 
 As though they did defpife 
 All things on earth, and could not broo.k 
 Their prefence : but mine heart is flow to rife. 
 
 6. 
 Oh that it were once winged like the dove. 
 That in a moment mounts on high^ 
 Then fhould it foon remove 
 Where it may lie 
 In love. 
 And lo^ 
 This one deflre 
 Methinks hath imp'd it fo, . 
 That it already flies like fire. 
 And ev'n my verfes into wings do grow.- > 
 
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122 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 
 The Union of the Hear't. 
 
 Ezek. xi. 119. 
 
 I will give them one hea^t. 
 
 Epic. 39. 
 
 T 1 K E-?mnded minds^ hearts alike heartily 
 •*--' Affect ed^ will together live and die :. 
 jilany^ things meet and part : hut lov/s great- cahle^ 
 T)ing tiua heartSy makes them infeparable, 
 
 ODE XXXIX. 
 
 7h ScuL I. 
 
 All this is not enough : methinks Igrow 
 More greedy by fruition : what I get 
 Serves but to fet 
 An edge upon mine-appetite. 
 And all thy gifts do but invite 
 My pray'rs for more. 
 Lord, if thou wilt not ftill increafe my ftore. 
 Why didft thou any thing at all befrow ? 
 
 Chri/l, , 2. 
 
 And is't the fruit of having, ftill to crave ? 
 Then let thine heart iinitei be to mine. 
 And mine to thine, 
 In a firm union, whereby 
 We may no more be thou and /,, 
 Or 1 and thou. 
 But both the fame : and then I will avovr,. 
 Thou canll net want what thou doft vvilhto hav€. 
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THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 123: 
 
 The Soul. 3, 
 
 True, Lord, for thou art All in All to me -,. 
 But how to get my. ftubbora heart to twins 
 And clofe with thine, 
 I do not know, nor can Iguefs ] 
 How I ihould ever learn, unlefs 
 Thou wilt dire<fi 
 The courfc that I muft take to that eiFec^. 
 'Tis thou, not I,. muft. knit mine heart to thee, 
 
 Chrjjh 4. 
 
 'Tis true, and fo I will ; but yet thou muft 
 Do fomething tow'rds it too : Firft, thou muft lay 
 All fm away, 
 And feparate from that, which would 
 Our meeting intercept, and hold 
 Us dillant llill : 
 Fam all goodnefs, and can clofe with^ ill 
 No more than richeft diamonds with duft. 
 
 Then thou muft not count any earthly thing, - 
 However gay and gloriouily fet forth. 
 Of any worth, 
 Compare'd v/ith me, that am alone 
 I'h' eternal, high, and holy One: 
 But place thy love 
 Only on me and the things above. 
 Which true content and endlefs comfort bring. 
 
 Love 
 
124 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 
 
 Love is the toadftone of the heart, the glue/ 
 The cement, and the folder, which alone 
 Unites in one 
 Things that before were not the fame. 
 But only like ; imparts the name. 
 And nature too, 
 Of each to th' other : nothing can undo 
 The knot that's knit by love, if it be true. 
 
 But if in deed and truth thou lovefl: me. 
 And not in word alone, then I fhall find 
 That thou doft mind 
 The things I mind, and regulate 
 All thine affections, love, and hate. 
 Delight, defire, 
 Fear, and the reft, by what I do require. 
 And I in thee myfelf fnaii always fee. 
 
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THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 125: 
 
 The Rest of the Heart. 
 
 Pfalm cxvi. 7; 
 Return unto thy reji^ myfouh 
 
 Epic. 40. 
 
 /l/f^ hufy^ flitring hearty that feeks the heft^ 
 •^ ^ Can find no place on earth wherein to rejl : 
 For God alone ^ the author of Its bllfs, 
 lis only reft^ its only centre is, 
 
 ODE XL. 
 
 Move me no more, mad world, it is in vain. 
 Experience tells me plain 
 I fhouid deceived be. 
 
 If ever I again fhouid truft in thee. 
 
 My weary heart hath ranfack'd all 
 Thy treafu'ries, both great and fmall. 
 
 And thy large inventory bears in, mind : 
 Yet coiild it never find 
 One place wherein to reft. 
 
 Though it hath often tried all the beft. 
 
 Thy prafks brought- me lofs infiead of" gain,. 
 And all thy pleafure.s pain : 
 Thine honours^ h^urr'd rny name 
 
 With the deep ftains of felf-confounding fliame. 
 
 ■ - Thy 
 
V26 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART* 
 
 Thy wifdom made me tumllark foolj 
 And all the leapmng, that thy-fehcGr 
 Afforded me, was not enough to make 
 
 Me know myfelf, and Cal^ff,' ^|;^'^^^ j^,, 
 Care of my better pait, . ; "- 
 Which fhoirld have periihed for all thiiic heart. 
 
 Not that there is HvOt place of refl in thee 
 For others : but for me 
 ' There is, there can he, none : , ,, . 
 That God, that made mine heart, is he; alone 
 Thar of himfelf both can and wIjI 
 Give reft unto my thoughts, and fiJl 
 Them full of all content and quietncO_, 
 That (o I may poifefs 
 My foul in patience. 
 Until he iind it time to call ms hence. 
 
 4. ... , :■;.-! 
 On thee, then, as a fure foundation^ 
 A tried corner- ftone, 
 Lord, I will drive to raife 
 The tow'r of my falvation, and thy praifc. 
 In thee, as in my centre, fhall 
 The lines of alLmy longings fall. 
 To thee, as to mine anchor, furely ty'd. 
 My {hip fhall fafely ride. 
 On thee, as on my bed 
 Of foft repofe, I'll reft my weary^kead. 
 
 5v 
 Thou, thou alone, {halt be my whole defire; 
 
 I'll nothing elfe require 
 
 But thee, or for thy fake. 
 In thee I'll fleep fecure.3 and, when I wake^ 
 
 Thy 
 
THE SCSOOL OF THE HEART, 127 
 
 Thy glorious faca fliall fatisfy . 
 The longing of my looking eye. 
 ril rx>ll myfelf on thee, as on my rock. 
 
 When threaTning dangers mock. 
 -Of thee, as of my treafure, 
 rirbonft and brag, my comforts knovsr no meafure. 
 
 Lord, thou (halt be rtiine All ; I will not know 
 
 A profit here below, 
 
 But what refle(fts on thee : 
 Thou fhalt be all the pleafure I will fee 
 In any thing the earth affords. 
 Mine heart {hall own no words 
 Of honour, out of which I cannot raife 
 
 The matter of thy praife. 
 
 Nay, I will not be mine, 
 Ualefs thou wilt vouchfafe to have me thine. . 
 
 The 
 
1^8 THE SCHOOL OF THB HEART. 
 
 The Bathing of the Hearts 
 
 Joel iii. 21.' 
 / will cleanfe their bloody that I have not cleanfed. 
 
 Epic. 41. 
 
 CJ^HIS bath thy Saviour fwet with drops of bhod^ 
 •^ Sick hearty of purpofe for to do thee good^ 
 They that have tryd it can the virtue tell; 
 Comey tMn, and ufe it^ if thou wilt be welL 
 
 ODE XLL 
 
 All this thy God hath done for thee : 
 
 And now, mine heart. 
 It is high time that thou Ihould'ft be 
 Acting thy part, 
 And meditating on his blefled paj^on. 
 Till thou haft made it tkuie by imitation. 
 
 That exercife will be the beft 
 
 And fureft means. 
 To keep thee evermore at reft. 
 And free from pains. 
 To fufFer with thy Saviour, is the way 
 To make thy prefent comforts laft for aye. 
 
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THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 129 
 
 Trace then the fteps wherein he trod. 
 
 And firfl begin 
 To fweat with him. The heavy load, 
 Which for thy fm 
 He underwent, fqueez'd blood out of his face. 
 Which in great drops came trickling down apace. 
 
 Oh let not, then, that precious blood 
 
 Be fpilt in vain, 
 But gather ev'ry drop. 'Tis good 
 To purge the ftain 
 Of guilt, that hath defile'd and overfpread 
 Thee from the fole of th' foot to th' crown of the head. 
 
 Poifon pofTc/Teth every vein, 
 
 The fouiitain is • 
 
 Corrup:, and all the ftreams unclean : 
 All is amifs. 
 Thy blood's impure ; yea, thou thyfelf, mine heart. 
 In all thine inward pov^Vs, polluted art. 
 
 When thy firft father firft did ill, 
 
 Man's doom w.:s read. 
 That in the fweat of 's face he flill 
 Should eat his bread. 
 What the firtl: Adam in a garden caught. 
 The fecond Adam in a garden taught. 
 
 [N'^ 12] M Taught 
 
130 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 
 
 7- 
 
 Taught by his own example, how 
 
 To fweat for fm. 
 Under that heavy weight to bow, 
 And never lin * 
 Begging releafe, till, with ftroiig cries and tears, 
 'J'he foul be drain'd of all its faults and fears. 
 
 8. 
 
 If fin's imputed guilt opprefsM 
 
 Th' Almighty fo. 
 That his fad foul could find no reft 
 Under that woe : 
 But that the bitter agony he felt 
 Made his pure blood, if not to fweat, to meltj 
 
 9. 
 
 Then let that huge inherent mafs 
 
 Of fin, that lies 
 In heaps on thee, make thee fuipafs 
 In tears and cries. 
 Striving with all thy ftrength, until thou fweat 
 Such drops as his, though not as good as great. 
 
 10. 
 
 And if he think it fit to lay 
 
 Upon thy back 
 Or pains or duties, as he may, 
 Until it crack, 
 Shrink not away, but ftrain thine utmoft force 
 To bear them chearfully without remorfe. 
 
 * Lm i i. e, linger, delay. 
 
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THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 131 
 
 The B I N D I N G of the Heart. 
 
 Hof. xi. 4. 
 / drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love, 
 
 E p I G. 42. 
 
 Jl/T'^ fin^i I do confefs^ a cord were found 
 -* '^ Heavy and hard by thee^ when thou waji bounds 
 Great Lord of love^ with them ; hut thou hajl twine'd 
 Gentle love- cords my tender heart to bind, 
 
 ODE XLII. 
 r.. 
 
 What I could thofe hands, 
 That made the world^ be ''ubjecSt unto bands ? 
 
 Could there a cord be round. 
 Wherewith Omnipotence itfelf was bound ? 
 Wonder, mine heart, and lUnd amazM to fee 
 
 The Lord of liberty 
 Led captive for thy fake, and in thy {lead. 
 
 Although he did 
 Nothing deferving death, or bands, yet he 
 Was bound, and put to death, to fet thee free. 
 
 2. 
 
 Thy fins had ty'd 
 Thofe bands for thee, wlierein thou fliould'ft have dy'd: 
 
 And thou didft daily knit 
 Knots upon knots, whereby thou made'ft them fit 
 Clofer and fafter to thy faultv felf. 
 
 M 2 Helplefs 
 
132 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 
 
 Helplefs and hopelefs, friendlefs and forlorn. 
 
 The fink: of fcorn. 
 And kennel of contempt, thou fliould'ft.hav^e lain , 
 Eternally enthrall'd to endlefs pain ;:f!i(i o^ol ot ?a i\ 
 
 3- 
 Had not the Lord 
 Of love and life been pleafed to afford 
 
 His helping hand of grace. 
 And freely put himfelf into thy place. 
 So were thy bands transferred, but not unty'd. 
 
 Until tl>e time he dy'd, 
 And, by hrs death, vanquifh'd and conquered all 
 
 That Adam's fall 
 Hid made victorious. Sin, death, and hell. 
 Thy fatal foes, under his footftool fell. 
 
 4- 
 Yet he meant not 
 That thou flixil i'ft ufe :he liberty he got 
 
 As it (hould like thee befl; 
 T) wander as thou liftefl:, or to reft 
 In foft repofe, carelefs of his commands : 
 
 He that hath loosM thofe bands. 
 Whereby thou waft enflaved to the foes. 
 
 Binds thee with thofe 
 \Vhcre'with he bound himfcif to do thee good, 
 7'iie bands of love, love writ in lines of blood. 
 
 5- 
 
 His love to thee 
 Mnde him to lay ^afrdt his majefly. 
 
 And, cloatiied in a vail 
 Of frail, though faultlefs fiefla, become thy bail. 
 
 But 
 
THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 133 
 
 But love requireth love : and fince thou art 
 
 Loved by him, thy part 
 It is to love him too : anci love affords 
 
 The ftrongeft cords 
 That can be : for it ties, not hands alone. 
 But heads, and hearts, and fouls, and all in one. 
 
 <3. 
 
 Coine then, mine heart. 
 And freely foJlov^r the prevailing art 
 
 Of thy Pvcdeemer's love. 
 That flrongr magnetic tie hath pov/'r to move , «A 
 The fleeirit fbabbornnefs. If thou but twine 
 
 And twift his love with thine; ^:' )- 
 
 And, by obedieiice, labour to cxprefs 
 
 Thy thankful ncfs ; 
 It wilLbe hard to fay on whether fide 
 The bands are furefl, which is faftf'r. ' ": 
 
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134 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 
 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/jT'weak and feeble heart a prop mufl irfe^ 
 -* ^ But plcafant fruits and fioivers doth refufe : 
 Aiy Chrift my pillar is ; on him refyy 
 Repofe, and rejl m)felf alone will L 
 
 ODE xuir. 
 
 Siippofe it true, that, whilft thy Saviour's iide 
 Was furrowed with fcourges,. he was ty'd 
 
 Unto fome pilhir id^ : 
 Think not, mine heart,, it was becaufe he tEouId 
 Not 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 ffrength. 
 Nor will, as of thvfelf, to undergo 
 '['he leaft d^o^rec of duty, or of woe. 
 
 But v/owU'lt be fuis at len<;th. 
 
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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 above. 
 Narrow beneath, apparently doth prove 
 
 Thou canft not ftand alone^ 
 Without a prop to bolfter and to ftay thee. 
 To truft to thineovi^n ftrength, 7-^ould foon betray thee. 
 
 Alas ! thou now art grown 
 So weak and ieeble, wavering and unftaid. 
 Thou fhrink'it at the leaft weight that's 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 tofs'd and tumbled ev^ry way.. I 
 
 The hound-purfued hare ■ 
 
 Makes not To many doubles as thou doil, j 
 
 Till thy crofs'd courfes in themfelves are loft. * 
 
 Get thee fomc ftay that may fupport thee, then, 
 And ftablifh thee, left thou fhouli'ft ftart again. 
 
 But where may it be found ? 
 Will pleafant fruits or flov/*rs fcrve the turn ? 
 No, no, my tott'ring heart will overturn 
 
 And lay them on the ground. 
 Dainties may ferve to minifler delight. 
 Bat ftrength is only from the Lord of might. 
 
 Betake 
 
136 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. i 
 
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 6. ! 
 
 Betake thee to thy Chrift, then, and repofe I 
 
 Thyfelf, in all extremities, on thofe \ 
 
 His evcrlafting arms, \ 
 
 Wherewith he girds the heavens, and upholds J 
 
 The pillars of the earth,, and fafely folds ' 
 
 His faithful flock from harms. ' 
 
 Cleave clofe to him by faith, and let the bands i 
 
 Of love tie thee in thy Redeemer's hands. ^ 
 
 Come life, come death, come devils, come what wUU 
 Yet, faflen'd fo, thou fhait ftand ftedfaft ft ill : 
 
 And all the pow'rs of hell 
 Shall not prevail to (hake thee vi^ith their fliockj 
 So long as thou art founded on that Rock : 
 
 "No duty fhall thee quell. 
 No danger fliall dillurb thy quiet ftate. 
 Nor foul-perplexing fears thy mind am ate *. 
 
 * j^wcte i !, e, dilhearten. 
 
 The 
 
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 Jie.vpttr tfiur Ji**(tr qeruM' nfiert ftocula fellif . 
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THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 137 
 
 The Scourging of the Heart. 
 
 Prov. X. 13. 
 d rod is for the back of him that is void of underjianding, 
 
 E P I G, 44. 
 
 jrrHE N thou with-hold'ft thyfcourges, dearejl Love^ 
 ^^ Myjluggijh heart is Jlack, and JIow to move : 
 Oh let it not jUnd ftill \ hut lajh it rather^ 
 And drivi it^ though unwilling^ to thy Fathr, 
 
 ODE XLIV. 
 
 What do thofe fcourges on that facred flefh, 
 
 Spotlefs and pure? 
 Muft He, that doth fin-weary'd fouls refrefli, 
 
 Himfelf endure 
 Such tearing; tortures ? Muft thofe fides be gafh'd ? 
 
 Thofe fhoulders lafh'd ? 
 Is this the trimming that the world beftows 
 Upon fuch robes of Majefty as thofe \ 
 
 Is*t not enough to die, unlefs by pain 
 
 Thou antedate 
 Thy death beforehand. Lord ? What doft thou mean ? 
 
 To aggravate • 
 
 The 
 
138 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 
 
 The guilt of fin, or to enhance the price 
 
 Thy facrifice 
 Amounts to ? Both are infinite, T know. 
 And can by no additions greater grow. 
 
 Yet dare I not imagine, that iiv vain 
 
 Thou didft endure 
 One ftripe : though not thine own thereby, my gain 
 
 Thou didft procure. 
 That when I (hall be fcourged for thy fake. 
 
 Thy ftripes may make 
 Mine acceptable, that I may not grutch, 
 When I remember thou haft borne as much : 
 
 As much, and more, for me. Come, then, mine ] 
 And willingly [heurt^ : 
 
 Submit thyfelf to fufSr : fmile at fmart, \ 
 
 And death defy. 
 
 Fear not to feel that hand corre£ting thee, : 
 
 Which fet thee free. 
 
 Stripes, as the tokens of his love, he leaves, : 
 
 Who fcourgeth ev'ry fon whom he receives. \ 
 
 There's foolifhnefs bound up within thee faft : 
 
 But yet the rod 
 Of fatherty correction at the laft,. 
 
 If bleft by God, 
 
 Will 
 
TIlimSoLOFTli'^iigAliT. 
 
 Will drive it far away, and wifdom give. 
 
 That thou may'ft live. 
 Not to thyfelf, but Him that firft was flain, 
 And died for thee, and then rofe again. 
 
 6. 
 
 Thou art not only dull, and flow of pace. 
 
 But flubborn too. 
 And refracftory ; ready to outface, 
 
 Kather than do 
 Thy duty ; thoucrh thou know'ft it muft be fo, 
 
 Tr-.ju Wilt not go 
 The way thou lli'mld*ft, till fome affli£lIon 
 Firft fet thee right, then prick and fpur thee on, 
 
 Top-like thy figure and condition is. 
 
 Neither to itand, 
 Nor flir thyfelf aione, whiift thou doft mifs 
 
 An helping liand 
 To fet thee up, and ftore of ftripes beftow 
 
 To make thee go. 
 Beg, then, thy bleiTed Saviour tp transfer 
 His fcourges unto thee, to mak€ thee ftir. 
 
 139 
 
 The 
 
140 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 
 The Hedging of the Heart. 
 
 Hofea ii. 6. 
 / will hedge up thy way with thorns. 
 
 E P I G. 
 
 45- 
 
 217'^, that of thorns^ would gather rofeSy may 
 "*- •* /;: his own hearty if handled the right way. 
 Hearts hedge" d with Chriffs croivn of thorns^ injiead 
 Of thorny cares ^ zvill fweetefi rofes breed, * 
 
 ODE XLV. 
 I. 
 
 A crown of thorns ! I thought fo : ten to one, 
 
 A crown without a thorn, there's none : 
 There's none on earth, I mean ; what, fhall I, then. 
 
 Rejoice to fee him crown'd by men. 
 By whom kings rule and reign ? Or fliall I fcorn 
 
 And h'MQ. to fee earth's curfe, a thorn, 
 Prepoft'roufly preferr'd to crown thofe brows. 
 
 From whence all blifs and glory flows ? 
 Or fhall I both be clad. 
 And aifo fad. 
 To think it is a crown, and yet fo bad ? 
 
 There's caufe enough of both, I muft confefs : 
 
 Yet, what's that unto me, unlefs 
 I take a courfe his crown of thorns may be 
 
 Made mine, transferr'd from him to me ? 
 
 3 Crowns, 
 
": 5^1/1 ^H :n = 
 
 oonoc 
 
 £mh.ir 
 
 SiiPiMEiMTtTki Cordis Coroxa Speni^ia. 
 
 JVe carrat tiixi Sftiria Jlt'si's ; Cor cmcoler armet . 
 Mortp areef .ftvifuis' Sep^v Diiuie/nu Fertis . 
 
THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 14^ 
 
 Growns, had they been of ftars, could add no more 
 
 Glorv, where there was all before ; 
 And thorns might (cratch him, could not make him 
 Than he was made, lin and a curfe. [worfe 
 
 Come then, mine heart, take down 
 Thy Saviour's crown 
 Of thorns, and fee if thou canft make 't thine own. 
 
 3- 
 
 Remember, firfl, thy Saviour's head was crown'd 
 
 By the fame hands that did him v/ound : 
 They meant it not to honour, but to fcnrn him. 
 When in fucb fort they had betorn * him. 
 Think earthly honours fuch, if thev r'^dound : 
 Never believe thev mind to dignify 
 Thee, that thy Chrift would crucify. 
 Think ev'ry crown a thorn, 
 Unlefs t' adorn 
 Thy Chrifl-, as well as him by whom 'tis worn, 
 
 4. 
 Confider, then, that as the thorny crown 
 
 Circled thy Saviour's head, thine own 
 Continual care to pleafe him, and provide 
 
 For the advantage of his fide, 
 Muft fence thine adions and affedtions fo^ 
 
 That they (hall neither dare to go 
 Out of that compafs, nor vouchlafe accefs 
 To what might make that care go lefs. 
 Let no fuch thing draw nigh. 
 Which iliali not fpy 
 Thorns ready plact'd to prick it till it die. 
 
 • Bacrn -J i. e. bemangled, torn in piecef. 
 
 [N^ 13] N Thus, 
 
J41 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 
 
 Thus, compafsM with thy Saviour's thorny crown, 
 
 Thou may*ft fecurely fit thee down, 
 And hope that he, who made of water wine, 
 
 Will turn each thorn unto a vine. 
 Where thou may'ft gather grapes, and, to delight thee, 
 
 Rofes : nor need the prickles fright thee. 
 Thy Saviour's facred temples took away 
 The curfe that in their fharpnefs lay. 
 So thou may'ft crowned be, 
 As well as he, 
 And, at the laft, light in his light (halt fee. 
 
 The 
 
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 JVoMe . ^ta (larKv in (ritce firu^ rr/M^ . 
 
 fi£ 
 
THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 143 
 
 j 
 
 The Fastening of the Heart. ] 
 
 Jer. xxxii. 40. j 
 
 / will put my fAr in their hearts^ that they Jhall not 
 
 depart from im, \ 
 
 E P I G. 46, ' j 
 
 CT'HOU^ that waft nailed to the crofi for me, ; 
 
 Lefl I JhouldJJip, and fall away from th^, \ 
 
 Drive hoine thine holy fear into mine hearty , 
 
 Jnd clifKh ii }o^ that it may neUr depart, ' 
 
 ODE XLVL 
 
 I. ^ 
 
 IVTiat ! dofl: thou flruggle to get loofe again ? 
 Haft thou fo fonn forgot the former pain. 
 That thy licentious bondage unto fm, 
 And luft-enlarged thraldom, put thee in ? 
 Haft thou a mind again to rove, and ramble 
 Rogue-like a vagrant through the world, and fcramble 
 For fcraps and crufts of earth-bred bafe delights, " 
 And change thy days of joy for tedious nights 
 Or fad repentant forrow ? 
 What ! wilt thou borrow 
 That grief to-day, which thou muft pay to-morrow I 
 
 2. 
 
 No, felf- deceiving heart, left thou fliould'ft caft 
 'I'hy cords away, and burft the bands at laft 
 
 N 2 Of 
 
14-4 .THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 
 
 (>f ihylied'eehier's tendeY love," Pll try 
 Wha.t furi;he4'-fa{iners in his fear doth He. 
 The cords. 9/ Jove^ foaked iii lull:, may rot, ' '^ 
 Aiui l^aiuls of boupty are'tob oft forgot :' '." ":^ 
 Kut kol/iilial fear, like to a nail'. ' i' wp '^'j-p 
 Faaen'<i m - ftire place, will' never f^fiY^ ^^^J^ 
 ,r .Ur7his. driven home, will take,> ^ T ^*> 
 ■::""f.Taft hold, and make ^ - ^^^.'^'^ 
 Thee t^^ll^pU^arfft pot.tk^GodJmtiM^ 
 
 Remember how, befidl:"^ *tH'y 'SWiitir'^ bands, .. 
 Wherewith they led him bouiid, his H-rfy'H'afi^s'' 
 And feet were pierced, how they nail'd him fall 
 Unto his bitter crofs, and how at lafl 
 His precious fide was gored with a fpear ; 
 So hard fliarp-pointed ir*n and ftcel did tear 
 His tender flcOi, that from thofc wounds might flow 
 The fov'reign falve for fm-procured woe. 
 Then, that thou may*ft not fail 
 or that avail, 
 Refufe not to be faflen'd with his nail, 
 
 4- 
 Love in a heart of flefh is apt to taint. 
 Or he fly-blown with folly: and its faint 
 AivJ feeble fpirits, when it (hews moft fair, 
 /\re often (cd on by the empty air 
 ()f popular applaufe, unlefs the fait 
 Of lioly fear in time prevent the fault : 
 But, feafon'd fo^ it will be kept for ever. 
 He that doth fear, becaufe he loves, will never 
 Adventure to often d. 
 But always bend 
 His beft endeavours to content his friend. 
 
 Though 
 
THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 145 
 
 Though perfe£l lovo caft out all fervlle fear, 
 BecauTe fuch fear hath torment : yet thy dear 
 Redeemer meant not fo to fet thee frcc^ 
 That filial fear and thou fhould ftrangers be. 
 Though, as a fon, thou honour him thy feather,. 
 Yet, as a Mafter, thou may'ft fear him rather. 
 Fear's the foul's centinel, and keeps the heart,. 
 Wherein love lodges, fo, that all the art 
 And induftry of thofe, 
 Tnat are its foes. 
 Cannot tetray it to its former woes* 
 
 Dn-3d zvcwiB^ufc 
 
146 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. j 
 
 The New Wine of the Heart. ' 
 
 Pfalm civ. 115. | 
 
 Iflne that maheth glad the heart of man* \ 
 
 li p 1 G. 47. : 
 
 f^HR I SI' the true vi7ie, grnpe^ clufler^ on the crfs . \ 
 
 Trod the wlne-prefs ahne^ unto the lofs j 
 
 Of hlood and life. t)''aiv, thankful hearty and [pare not : , 
 
 Here's wine €n:ugh for all,fave thoje that care not^_ \ 
 
 ODE XLVII. ; 
 
 I, 
 
 Leave not thy Saviour now, whate'er thou dofl, , 
 
 Doubtftil, diftruaful heart ; \ 
 
 Thy former pains and hibours all are loft, 1 
 if now thou flialt depart, 
 
 And faithlefsly fall otr at laft from him, ' 
 
 Who, to redeem thee, fpare'd nor life nor limb. \ 
 
 2. ; 
 
 Shall };e, that is thy clafler and thy vine, ! 
 
 Tread the wine-prefs alone, j 
 
 Whilft thou tland'ft looking on ? Shall both the wine \ 
 
 Avud Vv'oric hz a:l his own ? ,' 
 
 S^e how he bends, crufht with the flraiten'J fcrue , 
 
 Of that fierce wrath that to thy fnis was due. 1 
 
 ■j 
 
 3* ^ 
 
 ^ 1 
 
 Alihough thou canfl not help to bear it, yet i 
 
 'Thrufl thyli ir under too. 
 That thou may'il feel Tome of the weight, and get, i 
 
 Alti.oJgh not Itrength to do. 
 
 Yet 
 
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 Ml STXTM CORDIS E TOUCrLAKT CHrClS 
 
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 DeTcraiiitri ifiue frure Tuui fUtunt . 
 
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THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 147 
 
 Yet will to fuffer fomething as he doth, 
 
 That the Tame ftrcfs at once may fqueeze you bot 
 
 4' 
 Thy Saviour being preit to death, there ran 
 
 Out of his facred wounds 
 That wine that ma^:cth glad the heart of man. 
 
 And all his foes confounds. . 
 Yea, the full-flowing fountain's open dill 
 For all grace-thiiTting hearts to drink their fill : 
 
 5. 
 
 And not to drink alone, to fatiate 
 
 Their longing appetites, 
 Or drown thofe cumbrous cares tiiat would abat^ 
 
 The edge of their delights ; 
 But, when they toil, and foil themfelves wiih fin. 
 Both to refrefh, to purge, to cleaaie them in,. 
 
 6. 
 
 Thy Saviour hath begun this cup to t}\ce^_ 
 
 And thou muii not refufe 't. 
 Prefs then thy fm-fwoln fides, ..until they be- 
 
 Empty, and fit to ufe't. 
 Do not delay to come, when he doth call i 
 Nor fear to want, where there's enough for^Jl, 
 
 Thy bounteous Redeemer, in his blood. 
 
 Fills thee not wine alone. 
 But likewile gives his B.cCn to be thy food,' 
 
 Which thou may'li: make thine own. 
 And feed on H:m who hath himfeif revealed 
 The bread of life, by God the. Father fealcd. 
 
 3 ^'^y^ 
 
148 TSE SCHOOL OF THE HEART, 
 
 8. 
 
 Nay, he's not food alone, but phyfic too, 
 
 Whenever thou art fick j 
 And in thy wealcnefs ftrength, that thou may'ft do 
 
 Thy duty, and not flick 
 At any thing that he requires of thee, 
 How hard foever it may feem to be. 
 
 Make all the hade, then, that thou caJift. t^^csittife. 
 Before the day be part ; V :t^^.rr 
 
 And think not of returning to thy home, 
 Whilft yet the light dothlaft. 
 
 The longer and the more thou draw'ft this wine. 
 
 Still thou {halt find it more and more divine. 
 
 10. 
 
 Or if thy Saviour think it meet to throw 
 
 Thee in the prefs again. 
 To fufFer as he did ; yet do not grow 
 
 Difpieafed.at thy pain : 
 A fummer feafon follows winter weather ^ 
 SufF'ring, you (hall be glorify*d together. 
 
 Revel, xxii. 17,. 
 
 7'ke Spirit and the Bride fay^ Come. - And let him 
 that heareth^ fay^ Come. And let him that is athirji^ 
 come. And wb/jfm^r. will, let him take the water cf 
 life freely^ ^ w>fi) bnt-.o, 
 
 •U6l s^lil^il; )jo bijA 
 
 Ths 
 
The conclusion. 149 
 
 -cr->rrx: ■•■.:- ■■, ■ ' "J''<'0''^ var- 
 
 IS this my. period ? Have I JrtovE^ no more 
 To do hereafter ? Shall mv mind give o*er 
 Its beft employment thus, and idle be, . , ^ 
 Or buf) 'd otherwife ? Should I not fee ,V^ ''^^^ 
 How to improve my thoughts more thriftily. 
 Before I lay thefe Heart- School lef^ures by f . ' 
 Self-knowledge is an everlafting talk, ' " 
 
 An endlefs work, that doth not only afk ' ^"* *^ 
 A whole man for the time, but chairengefttf ^^^ ~ 
 To take up all his hours until death. 
 Yet, as, in other fchools, they have a car^,^ ^ , ,-- 
 To call for repetitions, and are --t.^ 
 
 Bufy'd as well in feeking to retain ^ , 
 
 What they have learn'd already, as to galii"' *'""^' 
 p'urther degrees of knowledge, and lay by 
 Irivention, whilft they prailife mtiT^ory : 
 So muft I likewifetake fome time to View 
 What I have done, ere I proceed anew. 
 Perhaps I may have caufe to interline. 
 To alter," or to add : the work \$ ntine. 
 And I may manage it as I fee befl:. 
 With my great Matter's leave. Then here I reft 
 From taking out new lefTons, till I fec."^"^ -. . 
 How I retain the old in memory.' ' ''^^'^'^Si. ^' 
 And if it be hrs pleafure, Ifhairfaf'^^^ «^^^*^*^,- 
 Thefe lelTons before others, that they may 
 Or learn them too, or only cenfure me ; 
 I'll, wait-with patience the fuccefs to fee;.- 
 And though I look not to have leave to play ^^^^ 
 (For that this fchool allows not), yet I niky*" *' 
 Andther tim&, perhaps, 'if they approve' ^ ''^^'5* 
 Of thefe, fuch as they are, and fhew their loyc.' 
 To the School of the Heart, by calling for't, 
 Add other IclTons more of the like fort. 
 
 The 
 
[ 150 ] 
 
 THE LEARNING OF THE HEART. 
 
 The preface. 
 
 IA M a fchokr. The great Lord of love 
 And life, my tutor is j wiio^ from above. 
 All that lack learning, to his fchool invites. 
 My heart's my pray'r-book, in which he writes 
 Syftems of all the art« and fitculties : 
 Firft reads to me, then makes me exercife. 
 But all in paradoxes, fuch high ftrains 
 As flow from none but love-infpired brain's : 
 Yet bids me publifli them abroad, and dare 
 T' extoll his arts above all other arts that are* 
 Why fhould I noti methinks it cannot be 
 B-ut they fliould pleafe others as wel4 as me. 
 Come, then, join hands, and let our hearts erribrace,, 
 Whilft thus L©ve*e labyrinth ©f airts we trace; ' 
 I mean the Sciences call'd Liberal : 
 Both Trivium and Quadrivium, fev'n in all. 
 
 With the higher faculties, Philofophy ; 
 
 And Law, and Ph^fic, and Theology* 
 
 The 
 
THE LEARNING OF THE HEART. 151 
 Tfte GftAMMAR of the Heart. 
 
 Pfalm XV. 2. 
 That fpe^ikcth [he t>uth in his heart* 
 
 MY Grammar, 1 define to be an aft rheart* 
 Which teacheth me to write and fpeak mine 
 By which I learn, that fmooth tongue'd flatc'nes are 
 Falfe language, and, in love, irregular. 
 Amongft my letters, Vow-wells, I admit 
 Of none but Confonant to Sacred Writ : 
 And therefore when my foul in filence moans, 
 Half-vowel'd fighs and' double deep-thong'd groans. 
 Mute * look?, and Liquid tears inflead of words, 
 Are of the language that mine heart affords. 
 And, fince true love abhors all variations. 
 My Grammar hath no moods nor conjugations, 
 Tenfes, nor perfons, nor declenfions, 
 Cafes, nor genders, nor comparifons : 
 Whatever my Letters are, my Word's but one,' 
 And, on the meaning of it. Love alone. 
 Concord is all my Syntax, and agreement 
 Is in my grammar perfeidt: regimenr. 
 
 He want^ no language that hath learned to love : 
 When tongues are ftill, hearts will be heard above. 
 
 '^ Mutes, liquidij diphthongs j nanics of letters in the alphabet. 
 
 The 
 
^52 THE LEARNING OP* THE UESkT:^ 
 
 The &;if BiTMaaijii^fi^ithe H^art.afrf wonil 1 
 
 Myb^art ts inditing a good m^it^* jyj 
 
 MY Rhetoric iis not fo much an art, ' ^. ..;\/^ 
 
 As an infufed habit in mine heart. 
 Which a fweet fecret elegance infliils. 
 And all my'fpeech with tropes and figures fills. 
 Love is the tongue*s elixir, which doth changevtiK[ ziH 
 The ordfnary ftnTe of words, and range Is di'iV/ 
 
 Them under other kinds ; difpofe them To, vio:? 2iH 
 That to the height of eloquence they grow, ' T 
 
 Ev'n in their native plainnefs, and muft be - - ^u\ 
 So underftood as Hketh love and me. ^Pinuhmdhnh 
 When 1 fay Chrift, I mean my Saviour ; 
 When his commandment, my behaviour : , , 
 
 For to that end it was he hither came, " ^^^'d 3v6j[ 
 And to this purpofe -tis T^ bear his name.' ■ --^ob told 
 When I fay, HallowM be thy name, he knows '^'^ ^vo;J 
 1 would be holy : for his glory grows 
 Too-ether with my good, and he hath not - - '■-, 
 Given more honour than himfelf hath got;5rt«i^9^ r-^ "'■■ 
 So when I fay. Lord, let thy kingdom come, 
 He underftands it, I would be at home. 
 To reign with him in glory. So grace brings 
 My Love, in me, to be the King of kings *. 
 He teacheth me to fay. Thy will be done. 
 But meaneth, he would have me do mine ownj 
 By making me to will the fame he doth. 
 And fo to rule myfelf, and ferve him both. 
 
 • That is, to be hfs love, or folcly to him. % 1 
 
 bo 
 
THE LEARNING OF THE HEART. i$$ 
 
 So when he faith. My fon, give me thine hearty 
 
 I know his meaning is, that I fhould part 
 
 With all I have for him, give him myfelf. 
 
 And to be rich in him from worldly pelf. 
 
 When he fays. Come to me, I know that he 
 
 Means I (hould wait his coming unto me; -» m^ 
 
 Since 'tis his coming unto me that makes jOfL 
 
 Me come to him : my part he undertakes. ./riW 
 
 And when he fays. Behold I come, I know . 5^^ 
 
 His purpofe and intent is, I fliould go, i^oj^ 
 
 With all the fpeed I can, to meet him whence ' > 
 
 His coming is attractive, draws me hence. 
 
 Thick-folded repetitions in love - 
 
 Are no tautologies, but ftrongly move 
 
 And bind unto attention. Exclamations 
 
 Are the heart's heav*n-piercing exaltations^ . ^ 
 
 Epiphonoema^s and Apoftrophe's 
 
 Love likes of well, but no Profopope's. .^ ^^^^ \ 
 
 Not doubtful but careful deliberations. 
 
 Love holds as grounds of ftrongeft refolutions*. 
 
 Thus love and I a thoufand ways can iind 
 
 To fpeak and underftand each other's mind 5 
 
 And defcant upon that which unto others 
 
 \s> but plain fong, and all their mufic rmother^. 
 
 Nay, that which worldly wit-worms call^nonf^nfe^ \^ 
 
 L many times love's pureft ^W^A^"^^ 
 
 i Qj t^m ni e3voJ Y*^ 
 
 ' /(fil o3 am rfj3rio£»3 aH 
 
 iim ob 5m 3vfi/f bloow uri ,rli3n£3m ^u'A 
 
 ,rfrob ofi 3m«i sdi lliw oj 9m xni^ffm y^; 
 
 niod fni,d svi^l bn£ yX'^.^^m ^Iut ct o"> h<^K 
 
154 THE LEARNING OF THE HEART. 
 
 The Logic oF the Heart. ' 
 I Pet. iii. 15. 
 
 Be ready always to give an anfwer to every man that 
 
 ajketh you a reafon of the hope that is in you, \ 
 
 MY Logic is the faculty of faith, \ 
 Where all things are refolv'd into, He 8AITH5 | 
 And ergo's, drawn from truft and confidence, 
 
 Twift and tie truths with ftronger confequence J 
 
 Than either fenfe or reafon : for the heart, ^ 
 And not the head, is fountain of this art. 
 
 And what the heart objects, none can refolve \ 
 
 But God himfelf, till death the frame diflolveo \ 
 
 Nay, faith can after death difpute with duft, ^ 
 
 And argue afhes into ftronger truft, ' 
 
 And better hopes, than brafs and marble can ^ 
 
 Be emblems of unto the outward man. ; 
 
 All niy invention is, to find what terms \ 
 
 My I/OTd and I ftand in : how he confirms \ 
 His promifes to me, how I inherit 
 
 What he hath purchas'd for me by his merit, '■ 
 
 My judgment is fubmiflion to his will, I 
 
 And, when he once hath fpolcen, to be ftill, | 
 My method 's, to be ordered by him ; 
 
 What he difpofcth, .that 1 think moft trim. j 
 
 I>c.ve's arguments are all, I will, Thou must ; \ 
 What He fays and commands, are true and juft. 
 
 When to difpute and argue's out of feafon^ j 
 
 Then to believe and to obey is reafon. J 
 
 FINIS. i 
 
TRANSLATIONS 
 
 O F T H 1 
 
 LATIN MOTT O'S 
 
 I N 
 
 THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART. 
 
 Ode 
 1 . The Infemoh of the Heart. 
 
 WHILE Satan deceives thee with fl^t- 
 teirng b^its, thy heart "drinks in tlie 
 deadly poifon of difeafe and death. 
 
 I f. The Taking aivay of the Heart. ., 
 
 Lull pleafes, and drunkennefs pleases, and 
 fo the foolifh mind grows ftupid and dead ; 
 thus the heart is without heart, 
 
 IIL The Darkne/s of the Heart. 
 
 Oh the darknefs of the heart ! to which 
 outer darknefs will fucceed, unlefs my light 
 be a light unto you. 
 
 IV. The Ahfenc! of the Heart. 
 
 How far, Oh fugitive ! woald thy heart 
 flee I if thou canft be faid to have an heart, 
 who art neither mindful of me, nor of thy- 
 felf. 
 
 P V. Ihs 
 
Tranflations of the Motto's in the School. 
 Ode 
 V. The Fanify of the Heart. 
 
 The bellows of ambition blow up the vain 
 heart with the wind of honors, whence it 
 breathes nothing but a^reat nothing. 
 
 VJ. The Opprsffion of the Heart. 
 
 Gluttony and drunkennefs, two weights of 
 folid lead, prevent our heaven-born hearts 
 ifrom mounting upwards. 
 
 VII. The Co'vetoufnefs of the Heart* 
 
 Doft thou inquire where thy heart is, heart- 
 lefs wanderer ? it is here, truly ; even where 
 that is which is dearer to thee than thy heart 
 itfelf. 
 
 VIII. The Opening of the Heart with the Spear. 
 
 The blefTed fpear, dyed red with the blood 
 of Jefus, pierces my heart with the wound of 
 divine love. 
 
 IX. The Dii'iftcn of .the Heart, 
 
 When I have given thee my whole felf, vain 
 virgin, why is ib fmall a ihare of thy hears 
 given to me ? 
 
 X. The In/atiability of the Heart. 
 
 Thy heart, which is a triangle, is not to be 
 filled with the whole world : the Trinity, who 
 made the heart, alone can fatisfy it. 
 
 Xr. The 
 
Tranflations of the Motto's in the School. 
 Ode- ' ' 
 
 XI. The P.eiurniny of the Heart. 
 
 Since now you have fo often been exhorred 
 by me to return to your own heart ; confider, 
 ycur unuiHiiigneis to return, is but a wiliing- 
 nefs to perilh. 
 
 XII. The Pt.r% e«/ of the Heart. 
 
 Why doft thoa conceal thy vows and thy 
 wounds in thy clofed breaft ? Let thy heart be 
 fpread out before God, as waters which are 
 poured forth. 
 
 XIII. The Circumcifion of the Heart. 
 
 oi 
 
 The crofs fupplies the handle ; the fpear, ' 
 the edge ; and the nails, the iron ; that com- 
 pofe tlfis knife : with it circumcife thy hear^, 
 and confecrate it to God. 
 
 XIV. The Contrition of the Heart. 
 
 Into many thou'and pieces would I break 
 this heart, which hath wilfully rebelled againlt 
 its Creator. 
 
 Xy. The Htmiliation of the Heart. 
 
 Alas ! the hea^^t, delighting itfelf in lofty 
 thing?, exalts itfelf too much, unlefs a weight 
 be placed upon it, to keep it down. 
 
 X \ ■ r . The Softening of the Heart. 
 
 My Heart, which is like icy marble, will 
 melt like wax, when the fire of thy love (O 
 Go:l) begins to burn. 
 
 P z. XVII. The- 
 
Tranflations of the Motto's in the School. 
 Odr 
 XVIf. The Chanftng of the Heart. 
 
 A fountain flows from the wound in thy 
 Hufband's pierced fide : in this, O fpoufe, 
 waih away the defilements of thy heart. 
 
 XVIIT. The Mirror of the Heart. 
 
 For a difcovery of the heart, fweet Jefus, 
 look upon my heart ; and let thij iight imprint 
 living wounds on thine. 
 
 XIX, The Sacrifice of the Heart. 
 
 Thefacrifice of a flain calf or bullock does 
 not pleafe God j that love, which gave me a 
 heart, requires this heart for himfelf. 
 
 X X. The IVeighing of the Heart, i- K 
 
 What thou gavell: nie as a great gift, ia not 
 iOf uniefs an equal balance proves it to be of 
 a proper weight. 
 
 XXI. The Defence of the Heart. 
 
 Oh my Light! defend my heart with the ihleld 
 of thy great fufferings, which your love for our 
 hearts conftrained you to bear, 
 
 XXil. The Trying of the Heart. 
 
 I alone can fearch the immenfc abyfs of the 
 heart, which the mariner's plumb-line is un- 
 able to fathom. 
 
 XX II, The Le-velling of the Heart. 
 
 - ,, ,/, '^ . ' If you would have your heart upright, my 
 
 daughter, bring it frequently for trial to the 
 true level of mine, 
 
 XXV. The 
 
TranAations of the Motto's in the School. 
 
 Ode 
 XXIV. 
 
 XXV, 
 
 XXVI. 
 
 XXVIL 
 
 
 XXVllI 
 
 XXIX. 
 
 XXX. 
 
 The Renewing of the Heart. 
 Since all new things pleafe, lay down thy 
 old heart, O fpoufe, and take the new one 
 which i place in its Head. 
 
 The Enlightening of the Heart. 
 
 God, thou light of light, thou only light 
 of a blind world, difpel, by thy light, the 
 thick darknefs that obfcures my heart. 
 
 The Laixj-Table of the Heart. 
 
 1 now write a new law on the fmooth, (oft 
 table of thy heart ; whereas the old one, which 
 was wrote on hard tables of ilone, ls for me 
 (i. e. to fulfill). 
 
 The Tillini of the Heart., 
 Come then, O fpoufe, let the plough of thy 
 crofs break up the field of my heart, that int:Q 
 it thou mayelt fcatter the feeds of thy word. 
 
 The Seeding of the Heart. 
 O divine Hulbandman, commit thou the 
 feed to the earth, lell the field of our hearts 
 prove unfruitful to thee. 
 
 The Watering of the Heart. 
 
 Clofcd towards the earth ; open towards 
 heaven ; let thy dew defcend ; that fo the foil 
 of my heart may flourifli, and produce a va- 
 riety of flowers; 
 
 The Flo'wers of the Heart, 
 Thefe lilies, O Spoufe, which fprang from 
 the r«ed thou fowedft, I confecrate to thee ; to 
 which alfo I add the foil in whieh they grew. 
 
 XXXI. Thf. 
 
Tra:ifli:ioi3 ( the Motto's in the School, 
 
 Ode 
 
 XXXI. The Kee/>i;2g of the Heart. 
 
 How well does that watchman keep the in- 
 dofed garden of his heart, whom the fear of 
 God arms with a glittering fword ! 
 
 XXXII. The Watching of the Heart. 
 
 Whilft fleep pofTefles my limbs, my watchful 
 heart fearches after thee ; nor can 1 bear to be 
 without thee, by night or by day. 
 
 XXXIII. The Wounding of the Heart. 
 
 O my Light, pierce thro' this heart with a 
 thoufand of thy moft potent (liafts ; for the 
 wounds given by thy right hand are medicines. 
 
 XXXIV. The Inhabiting of the Heart. 
 
 O my Li^ht ! may thy Spirit dwell in the 
 temple of mine heart, that, loving thee with 
 thine own love, O Spoufe, thou may*ft return 
 it again to me. 
 
 XXXV. The Enlarging of the Heart. 
 
 How pleafant a thing it is to love that which 
 heretofore the heart accounted bitter; even to 
 run in a narrow way with an enlarged heart 1 
 
 XXXVI. The Inflaming of the Heart. 
 
 Proceed, my Love, and inflame the inmoft 
 recefles of my heart, tKat, like a falamander, 
 it may dwell in its native burning pile ! 
 
 XXXVII. The Ladder of the Heart. 
 
 Would you, my beloved, afcend by a ladder 
 to the heavenly feats ? here firft conilruft the 
 fleps in your own heart. 
 
 XXXVIII. The 
 
Tranflations of the Motto's in the School. 
 
 Ode 
 XXX\1II. The F/ji»g of the Heart. 
 
 Who will give me the two wings of a dove, 
 by which my heart, which is tired of the earth, 
 may fly to heaven ? 
 
 XXXIX. The Uuh;z of the Heart. 
 
 Live, ye united minds and agreeing hearts, 
 to whom one love gives but one will. 
 
 XL. The ReJ of the Heart. 
 
 My reillefs heart cannot dwell at eafe in any 
 (earthly) fituation; for God alone is its cen- 
 tre, and only refting- place. 
 
 XLI. The Bathing of the Heart with the bloody Sweat, 
 
 The bath, which was iilled with the bloody 
 
 fweat of thy bleeding Spoufe : come hither, 
 
 {\zk heart, here is for you, what was appointed 
 
 in Paradife. 
 
 ** This is very obfcure ; but his meaning feems to 
 
 *• be, that as it was apparciitly appointed in Pa- 
 
 '* radife for man to live by the /weat of his brow, 
 
 ** fo by this bloody fweat the foul ibail live." 
 
 XLII. The Binding of the Heart with the Cords of 
 Chrii^ ('s Love), 
 
 My crimes, I confefs, have bound thee with 
 a cruel cord : may that iweeter cord of love 
 bind my heart to thee, 
 
 XLIIL Chriil's Pillar, the Prop of the Heart. 
 
 My weak heart requires nor flowers nor 
 apples to fupport it : this pillar of chine, O 
 my Chrift, is fupport enough. 
 
 3 XLIV. The 
 
Tranflations of the Motto*s in the School. 
 Ode 
 XLIV. The Heart is the Cup to a thirlling Chrifl. 
 
 Refufe the cup of gall, which the Jewifh 
 people offered : but drink, O Spoufe, the new 
 wine of a wounded heart. 
 
 XLV. The Hedging M the Heart with a Crown of 
 Thorns. 
 
 That your thorns may not vvantrofes, let 
 your Heart furnifh itfelf -Aith that colour : this 
 thorny diadem will keep all infernal wild beaft* 
 out of the garden. 
 
 XLYI. The Heart //Vm^ with the Nails of God's fear. 
 
 Pierce through this heart of mine, with the 
 nail of holy fear, O thou who waft nailed to 
 the Crofs for me. 
 
 XLVII. The JWov Wine of the Heart out of the Prefs 
 of the Crofs. 
 
 Behold the Cyprian duller of grapes is pre(!; 
 accept, O heart, the rich-flavoured wine which 
 flows from the wine-pref* of the crofs. 
 
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