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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⟩Heart, as servants the Mistress, wheels the poise, or links the first end of the chain. When the Sun riseth, all rise; beasts from their dens, birds from their nests, men from their beds. So the Heart leads, directs, moves the parts of the body, and powers of the soul: that the mouth speaketh, hand worketh, eye looketh, ear listeneth, foot walketh; all producing good or evil, from the good or evil treasure of the heart. ²Therefore the penitent Publican beat his Heart, as if he would call up that, to call up the rest.

How should Christ enter thy house, and suppe with thee, when the Chamber is taken vp, wherein he would rest,¹ the Heart? All the faculties of Man follow the ⟨p. 11⟩Heart, as seruants the Mistresse, wheeles the poyse, or linkes the first end of the chaine. When the Sunne riseth, all rise; beasts from their dennes, birds from their nests, men from their beds. So the Heart leads, directs, moues the parts of the body, and powers of the soule: that the mouth speaketh, hand worketh, eye looketh, eare listneth, foote walketh; all producing good or euill, from the good or euil treasure of the heart. ²Therfore the penitent Publican beat his Heart, as if he would cal vp that, to call vp the rest.

1. 1Reu. 3. 20
2. 2Luke 6. 45.