A Saint Indeed

2. The manner of performing it.

1. The Matter of the Duty; Keep thy Heart. Heart is not here taken properly for that noble part of the Body which Philosophers call the primum vivens, & ultimum moriens; the first that lives, and the last that dies; but by Heart in a Metaphor, the Scripture sometimes understands some particular noble faculty of the Soul, in Rom. 1. 21. it is put for the understanding part, their foolish Heart (i. e.) their foolish understanding was darkened. And Psal. 119. 11. It is put for the Memory, Thy Word have I hid in my Heart. And John 1. 3. 20 It is put for the Conscience, which hath in it both the light of the Understanding, and the recognitions of the Memory: If our heart Condemn us, (i. e.) if our Conscience; whose proper Office it is to condemn. But here we are to take it more generally for the whole Soul or inner Man; for look what the Heart is to the Body, that the Soul is to the Man: and what Health is to the Heart; that Holiness is to the Soul: Quod sanit as in corport, id sanct it as in cord. The state of the whole Body depends upon the soundness and vigour of the Heart, and the everlasting state of the ⟨p. 3⟩whole man upon the good or ill condition of the Soul.

1. The Matter of the Duty; Keep thy Heart. Heart is not here taken properly for that noble part of the Body which Philosophers call the primum vivens, & ultimum moriens; the first that lives, and the last that dies; but by Heart in a Metaphor, the Scripture sometimes understands some particular noble facultie of the Soul, in Rom. 1. 21. it is put for the understanding part, their foolish Heart (i. e.) their foolish understanding was darkened. And