The Godly Man's Picture

4. He shows his love to the Word, by hiding it, Psal. 119. 11. Thy Word have I hid in my heart: As one hides a treasure that it should not be stolen away: The Word is the Jewel, the heart is the Cabinet where it must be locked up: Many hide the Word in their ⟨p. 81⟩memory, but not in their heart. And why would David enclose the Word in his heart? That I might be kept from sinning against thee. As one would carry an Antidote about him, when he comes near an infected place; so a godly man carries the Word in his heart as a spiritual antidote to preserve him from the infection of^* sin: Why have so many been poisoned with error, others with moral vice, but because they have not hid the Word as an holy antidote in their heart.

4. He shows his love to the Word, by hiding it, Psal. 119. 11. Thy Word have I hid in my heart: As one hides a treasure that it should not be stoln away: The Word is the Jewel, the heart is the Cabinet where it must be locked up: Many hide the Word in their ⟨p. 81⟩memory, but not in their heart. And why would David inclose the Word in his heart? That I might be kept from sinning against thee. As one would carry an Antidote about him, when he comes neer an infected place; so a godly man carries the Word in his heart as a spiritual antidote to preserve him from the infection of^* sin: Why have so many been poysoned with error, others with moral vice, but because they have not hid the Word as an holy antidote in their heart.

1. *Verbum Dei alexipharmacum.