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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19639	Three sermons viz. The walking sleeper, the ministeriall husbandrie, the discouerie of the heart. Preached and published by Sam. Crooke.	Crook, Samuel, 1575-1649.	1615 (1615)	STC 6069; ESTC S117125	72,467	211

which the heart best loueth there is the heart whether we loue it because we like it or like it because we loue it There indeede is the heart not so much where it Liues if we beleeue either Philosophie or experience as where it Loues Admit a Treasure it is easie to know both the Treasurie the Heart that imbraceth it and the Treasurer or else hee wants his will the Man that affects it And if he affect it for it selfe as here is supposed hee bestowes his reasonable infinite appetite vpon it for whatsoeuer is loued for it self is loued infinitely The Treasure therefore and the Heart are neuer parted whatsoeuer the hand bee neither is the Heart parted vnto this Treasure for it is wholly taken vp with the loue of it Neither can it be imparted or communicated vnto any other thing with it but is onely tied vnto this one Treasure affecting all other things respectiuely as they make with or against this onely best beloued See this in the seuerall sorts of treasure which men affect they are but two we may the better suruey them One man hath his Treasure on earth Where is his Heart In heauen Nay heauen is hell to such an one and heauenly exercises are as hellish torments Oh torment him not before his time If you can shew him any good as he cals good If you can fill his God-belly with som hidden treasure som delicious morsell If you can prophecie to him of Wine and strong drinke If you can helpe him with any of that Godlinesse which hee meanes viz. Gaine then come and wel-come But if you come with your dreames of another world Act. 24.26 of heauen and hell of Righteousnesse Temperance and the iudgement to come you trouble Faelix his felicitie you bring him in danger of a quaking Ague either you shall pardon him for hearing you any farther or you shall giue him leaue to heare as Ezekiels hearers Ezek. 33.31 His mouth making iests at you his heart going all the while after his couetousnes Ier. 22.17 For indeed both Eyes Heart are only for couetousnes that which comes thereof Another man hath laied vp his treasure in heauen where is his heart on earth thinke you nay Psal 73.25 Whom haue I in heauen but thee and I haue desired none in earth with thee Psal 27.4 One thing haue I desired of the Lord that I will require that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the dayes of my life to behold the beauty of the Lord and to visit his holy Temple Phil. 3.7.8 The thinges that were vantage to me the same I counted losse for Christs sake yea doubtlesse I thinke all things but losse for the excellent knowledge sake of CHRIST IESVS my LORD for whom I haue counted all things losse and doe iudge them to be dung that I might winne Christ 2. Cor. 4.18 For we looke not on the things which are seen but on the things which are not seen for the things which are seen are temporall Psal 4.6 but the things which are not seene are eternal Wherfore though many say who will shew vs any good yet Lord lift vp the light of thy countenance vpon vs. Let others cōtent themselues with a portion in this life Psal 17.14 15. whose bellies thou fillest with thy hidden treasure but I will behold thy face in righteousnesse and when I awake I shall be satisfied with thine Image Do you not note how the heart goes after the treasure How it is wholy possessed with it How it disdaines to entertaine a riuall In so much that the one of these men will not tast of the others delicates Psal 141.4 What doubt then but where the treasure is there is the heart also If in earth it giueth poise to the soule to sinke with all If in heauen it giueth wings not of a Doue or of an Eagle but of an Angel to ascend withall that where the treasure is there may the heart be also Is there any then among vs Right Honourable and Beloued that would know where his stray hart is or where his treasure is he shall be sure to finde the one by the other but because the heart is most cunning and deceitful aboue all things who can know it Ierem. 17.9 and as Aug. saith Cor omne omni cordi clausū no one heart can vnlock an other let vs a litle extend this line of our Sauiour and by his direction that made and therefore knowes the heart indeauour to finde out this same fugitiue We neede seeke it but in two places For by our Sauiours diuision in the two former verses euery mans treasure is either in earth or in heauen but they are wide you will say True but wee neede but bring conscience to the doore it will easily discerne the Treasure and by the treasure the heart For my part mee thinks I descry in each of these Regions a twofold order of hearts one open and manifest an other close and concealed yet with diligence to be discouered as we will see in the seueralls To begin with the worldling whose hart pointeth to the earth as the loadstone to the Pole we may plainly see this leprosie in most mens foreheads and yet they will denie it too For the worldly man seldome thinks himselfe worldly frugall if ye will but not couetous nay when all men else both see and say it then doth hee shut both his eyes and eares against it better knowne to any man then himselfe But happily euen now hee hath forgot to shut the doore or the Lord may wee know he can break open the Iron gate of his heart that hee may begin to see and to abhorre himselfe In a manifest worldling therefore wee shall see these apparent characters prouing his heart and treasure to be vpon the earth First looking to the earth and earthly treasure Pro. 21.6 which as Solomon saith is vanitie tossed to and fro of them that seeke death wee shall see by the Ball who are the Tennis plaiers or as a man is knowne to trauaile to Fayre or Market by his cariages his company his communication so it will appeare that most men minde and ayme at earthly things if we consider 1. Their course of life and actions all taken vp in buying and selling eating and drinking building and planting and such like this is their businesse while they liue their storie when they are dead like those of the old world and of Sodome Luk. 17.26 c. without any care or prouision for their spirituall and euerlasting estate 2. Their companie birds of the same feather I speake of the cōpanie which they choose and delight in Such as will ioyn with them in excessiue sports and pleasures such as can aduāce their worldly proiects or happily vppon whose ruines they may build their couetous and ambitious designes But if any man refraine from iniquitie Esa 59.15 refuse to