The works of George Swinnock, M.A

The Heart is the great Work-house where all sin is wrought, before its exposed to open view; Its the Mint where evil thoughts are coined, before they are currant in our words or actions; Out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, Matth. 15.19. that is the nest in which those Hornets breed. The heart is the original of sinful words, as well as sinful thoughts; Out of the heart proceed false witness, blasphemies, Matth. 15.19. They were in the heart before ever they were in the tongue. Its said of the Weasel that it conceives at the ear, and brings forth at the mouth: Every sinner conceiveth at the heart, what he brings forth at the mouth. Such stinking breath comes from rotten inwards. The heart is the •••sel of poisonous liquor, the tongue is but the tap to broach it; Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh. The heart is the Forge also, where all our evil works as well as words are hammered out; Out of the heart proceed murders, and thefts, and adulteries, and fornica•ions, Matth. 15.19. You will say that murders and thefts are hand-sins, and that adulteries and fornication belong to the eye, and outward parts of the body; but alas, the heart is the womb wherein they are conceived and bred; the outward parts are but the Midwives to deliver the mother of those monsters, and to bring them into the world; An ⟨p. 699⟩evil man, out of the evil treasure in his heart, bringeth forth evil things: There is no sin but is dressed in the withdrawing room of the heart, before it appear on the stage of the life.

The Heart is the great Work-house where all sin is wrought, before its exposed to open view; Its the Mint where evil thoughts are coyned, before they are currant in our words or actions; Out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, Matth. 15.19. that is the nest in which those Hornets breed. The heart is the original of sinful words, as well as sinful thoughts; Out of the heart proceed false witness, blasphemies,