Transubstantiation examined and confuted in two sermons on the Lord's Supper / preached in…Transusbstantiation examin'd and confuted in two sermons on the Lord's Supper / preach'd in…

Therefore if my heart tell me that I do love God, whom shall I believe before my self? As Solomon saith, No man can ¹search the heart of the King: so Paul saith. No man knoweth the spirit of any man, but the spirit which is in man: that is, no man feeleth the heart of man so well as himself. And yet himself, although he have lived with it ever since he was born, doth not ⟨p. 35⟩know his own heart, unless he examine it narrowly, no more then he knoweth his own bones, or his veins, or his sinews, or his arteries, or his muscles, how many are in his body, or where they lie, or what they do.

1. 1Pro. 25. 3. 1 Cor. 2. 11.

This seems strange that a man should not know his own heart: yet it is true that the best of all doth not know his own heart, tho' he hath dwelt with it from his mothers womb. For Christ saith to his Disciples, you know not of what spirit you are, that ¹is, you think better of your selves than you are, and know not what the Clock striketh within. There is a Zeal without knowledge, and there is a knowledge without Zeal: There is a Faith without Obedience, and there is an Obedience without Faith, there is a Love without Fear, and there is a Fear without Love, and both are Hypocrites. Therefore as Delilah ²searched where Sampson's strength lay, so let every man search where his weakness lieth, and alway be filling the empty gap.

This seems strange that a man should not know his own heart: yet it is true that the best of all doth not know his own heart, tho' he hath dwelt with it from his mothers womb. For Christ saith to his Disciples, you know not of what spirit you are, that