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2. The Miner of performing it, is With all diligence; the Hebrew is very Emphatical [Greek or Hebrew] cum omni custodia, keep with all keeping; q. d. keep, keep; set double Guards, your hearts will be gone else: And this vehemency of expression with which the duty is urged, plainly implies how difficult it is to keep our Hearts, and how dangerous to let them go.

2. The Minner of performing it, is With all diligence; the Hebrew is very Emphatical 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 cum omni custodia, keep with all keeping; q. d. keep, keep; set double Guards, your hearts will be gone else: And this vehemency of expression with which the duty is urged, plainly implies how difficult it is to keep our Hearts, and how dangerous to let them go.

2. The Reason or Motive quickening to this Duty is very forcible and weighty, For out of it are the issues of life. That is, it is the Source and Fountain of all vital actions and operations; Hinc Fons boni & peccandi or go, saith Jerome; it is the Spring and Original both of good and evil-as the spring in a Watch that sets all the Wheels in motion. The Heart is the Treasury, the Hand and Tongue but ⟨p. 5⟩the Shops, what is in these came from thence; the hand and tongue always begins where the heart ends. The heart contrives, and the members execute, Luke 6. 46. A good man out of the good treasury of his heart bringeth forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasury of his heart bringeth forth evil things; for out of the abundance of his heart his mouth speaketh. So then, if the heart err in its work, these must needs miscarry in theirs; for heart-errors are like the errors of the first concoction which cannot be rectified afterwards: Or like the mis-placing and inverting of the stamps and letters in the Press, which must needs cause so many errata's in all the Copies that are printed off. O then! how important a Duty is that which is contained in the following Proposition?