16. A wicked heart, Pro. 26.23. set on evil, Eccl. 8.11.17. foolishness is bound to the heart, Pro. 22.15. a dissembling heart, when seven abominations are in it, Pro. 26▪ 25. (1.) We take no• heed to the imaginations, and are not grieved for the constitution of the heart, for actual sins make original sin to swell, as two floods running into one maketh a huge River. (2.) We take not heed to the young births of the heart, with the concurrence of the mind, fancy and imagination, there are multitudes of forgeries, clay-pots, and imaginations framed, as a potter deviseth vessels of earth of many quantities, figures, shapes, great, small, narrow, wide, round, cornered, for the word is a potters word, Gen. 6.5. 1 Chr. 28.9. with all keeping keep thy heart, Prov. 4.23. the word is to keep as the keepers of the walls, Cant. 3.5. as shepherds, for its in danger to be stolen away, Hos. 4.11. 2 Sam. 17.6. Hos. 7.11. Ephraim is like a silly dove without heart, but we take no heed to the entry, to see what goes in, what comes out. (1.) What if there be no God? Psal. 14.1. (2.) What if God see not? Ezek. 9.9. (3.) What if man perish as the beasts? Eccl. 3.19. It may be there is no heaven,1 nor hell. (4.) What if there be no Christ, nor Gospel, but only questions of words? Such clay-pots were framed by Gallio, and Festus, Act. 18.14, 15. Act. 25.11, 19. Hence come imaginations of things impossible, Isa. 14.13. I'll ascend to heaven, saith Babylon, I will set my nest among the stars. Oba. 4. Tyre saith, I am god, I sit in the seat of God. And new-wild-fire flights which are indeed old heresies, are of this kind;2 such are dreamers, who see seven lean kine eat seven fat kine, in re, its a lie. (5.) A new heart is the Office-house of Christ, and a heart delighting in Gods ways is a new heart, where the Law is imprinted and engraven in the heart, Isa. 51.7. Hearken ⟨p. 151⟩ye people in whose heart is my Law. Psal. 40.8. I delight to do thy will, O God, thy Law is within my heart. Its true there is a new delight in the heart, but not a delight of the new heart, Isa. 58.2. Joh. 5.35. for a delight in the Gospel as a good thing, not as a good Gospel, a delighting in Christ as a Prophet that feeds them, not in Christ as a Redeemer, Joh. 6.26. that saves them, is not a new heart.
16. A wicked heart, Pro. 26.23. set on evil, Eccl. 8.11.17. foolishnesse is bound to the heart, Pro. 22.15. a dissembling heart, when seven abominations are in it, Pro. 26▪ 25. (1.) We take no• heed to the imaginations, and are not grieved for the constitution of the heart, for actuall sins make originall sin to swell, as two floods running into one maketh a hudge River. (2.) We take not heed to the young births of the heart, with the concurrence of the mind, fancie and imagination, there are multitudes of forgeries, clay-pots, and imaginations framed, as a potter deviseth vessels of earth of many quantities, figures, shapes, great, small, narrow, wide, round, cornered, for the word is a potters word, Gen. 6.5. 1 Chr. 28.9. with all keeping keep thy heart, Prov. 4.23. the word is to keep as the keepers of the walls, Cant. 3.5. as sheepheards, for its in danger to be stollen away, Hos. 4.11. 2 Sam. 17.6. Hos. 7.11. Ephraim is like a silly dove without heart, but we take no heed to the entry, to see what goes in, what comes out. (1.) What if there be no God? Psal. 14.1. (2.) What if God see not? Ezek. 9.9. (3.) What if man perish as the beasts? Eccl. 3.19. It may be there is no heaven,1 nor hell. (4.) What if there be no Christ, nor Gospel, but only questions of words? Such clay-pots were framed by Gallio, and Festus,
- 1The […] and unreasonable imaginations of the heart and the atheism thereof.The 〈…〉 and unreasonable imaginations of the heart and the atheism thereof.
- 2A heart delighted with God is the work-house of CHRIST.
