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God is,¹ saith a Father, non corticis, sed cordis Deus: not regarding the rind of the lips, but the root of the Heart. Hence Satan directs his malicious strength against the Heart. The fox doth gripe the neck, the mastiff flies at the throat, and the Ferret nips the Liver: but the Devil aims at the Heart, inficere, interficere. The Heart he desires, because he knows, God desires it: and his ambition still inclines, intends his purposes and plots, to rob God of his delight. The Heart is the chief Tower of life to the body, and the spiritual Citadel to the whole man: always besieged by a domesticall enemy, the Flesh: by a civill, the world: by a profest, the Devil. Every perpetrated sin doth some hurt to the walls; but if the Heart be taken, the whole Corporation is lost.

God is,¹ sayth a Father, non corticis, sed cordis Deus: not regarding the rinde of the lippes, but the root of the Heart. Hence Sathan directs his malicious strength against the Heart. The foxe doth gripe the necke, the mastiffe flies at the throat, and the Ferret nippes the Liuer: but the Deuill aymes at the Heart, inficere, interficere. The Heart he desires, because he knows, God desires it: and his ambition still inclines, intends his purposes and plots, to robbe God of his delight. The Heart is the chiefe Tower of life to the body, and the spirituall Citadell to the whole man: alwayes besieged by a domesticall enemy, the Flesh: by a ciuill, the world: by a profest, the Deuill. Euery perpetrated sinne doth some hurt to the walls; but if the Heart be taken, the whole Corporation is lost.

1. 1Ambros.

How should Christ enter thy house, and sup with thee, when the Chamber is taken up, wherein he would rest,¹ the Heart? All the faculties of Man follow the ⟨p. 11⟩