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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B01109	A court of guard for the heart.	Taylor, Joseph.	1626 (1626)	STC 5876.5; ESTC S124214	16,679	82

sayth Saint Austine When he hath sent his Graces as Harbengers to prepare thy heart he continues them there to guard thy Heart Doe but recount to your selues the Stories of your own liues Remember how often your hearts haue bene resolutely set on such or such a sinn yet God hath diuerted them How often haue your tongues bene ready to blaspheme or slander yet God hath stopd them and your hands prepared for a mischiefe yet God hath stayd them How this affects you I know not but St. Augustin was so taken with it when he thought on 't that it made him speake those words 〈◊〉 which nothing but such a zeale such a deuotion as St. Augustine had could make warrantable Such are the mercies of God saith he to my soule● that I can scarse imagine God doth any thing els but study how to saue me as if hee had forgot all the rest of his creatures to haue the more time to looke to me alone Nor is this all but as great Princes will haue their Seruants attend on him whom they honor so God commāds the glorious Angels to wait on their Harts on whom he casts a gratious eye nay They are no longer Angels as St. Gregory well obserues then they are so employd For according to S. Austin An Angel is a name of Office not of Nature They are alwayes Spirits but not alwayes Angels for no longer messengers from God to man no longer Angels since onely to be a Messenger implies to be an Angell That euery one of vs hath a seuerall Angell deputed for his guard from his natiuitie is the iudgement of some of the learned Fathers Saint Hierome proues the dignity of the soule by that argumēt St. Basil as confidently sayes That euery true beleeuer hath his Angell the like sayes Origen of euery one that is baptized Others of later times haue gone so far as to affirm our Sauiour Christ while he liued on earth had his tutela●● Angell because it is sayd that when he was in that bloudyagony in the Garden Luke 22. there appeared an Angell from heauen comforting him But the bold forehead of the Iesuite Maldonat blusheth at this reiecting it for a Paradoxe That hee that was the true God should want the guard of one single Angell Bellarmins Meditations haue eleuated him to so high a fancie as to find out that in euery Kingdome there are two Kings a Man and an Angel in euer Dioces two Bishops a Man and an Angel nay in the Catholike Church two Popes without a Schisme the one a visible Man the other an inuisible Angell But wee knowledge is bounded o● the one side with the Scripture on the other side by ou● owne modesty do willingly forbeare to giue you dreames instead of Reuelations Fancies instead of Truth Whether euery Soule of vs hath a seuerall Angell for a Tutor● Let it rest with those Fathers that thought so But whether each of vs hath a bad Angell to oppose as a good to assist as Maldonat thinks probable or whether at the resurrection euery mans good Angell shall gather together the bones of him he guarded as Suarez teacheth Or as Bellarmine will haue it In the Chaire of Rome there bee seated an inuisible Pope as well as a visible Let the Iesuits only determine that haue made themselues a false Key to the Cabinet of Gods secrets It shall suffice vs to whom the Foolishnesse of the reuealed Gospell is sufficient That hee that maks his Angels ministring spirits Heb. 1.7 his Ministers a flame of Fire hath giuen his Angles charge ouer vs Psai 91.11 to keepe vs in all our wayes Daniel 10 In Daniel wee find but one Angell to guard a whole Kingdome all Persia Genes 32. In Genesis two Armies of Angels to keepe one Iacob Of their protection wee are certaine of their number whether one or more wee may be with religion euough vncertaine That which concernes vs neerest is to make such vse of it which St. Bernard doth on those words already cited He gaue his Angels charge ouer thee O what reuerēce should these words strike in thee what deuotion should they stirre vp what confidence to heare that thy Angels are thy guides to hear that they are not onely presēt with thee but present for thee they are the coniuring words of that deuout Father Let mee beseech you Brethren that yee would not commit those foule sinnes in the sight of the Angels that keepe you in the eyes of God himself which you would not doe if no more then I were by If you will needs sin saith St. Basil chuse out some place where neither God nor his Angels are but if their be no corner so darke so solitary so secret but they are there let there as well be no place for you to dare to sinne I haue showne you the attendance of the Angels vnder God the great Keeper of all harts That there is a heauenly watch dayly set about vs. I will onely adde this out of St. Basil That God nor his Angels neuer part with vs till we make them goe that only our sins dismisse this Watch. For as smoake driues away Bees saith that Father or as ill smels chase Pigeons from their Doue-coats so doth the smoake the stench of sinne driue God from vs with all his Angels Let not therefore the vnregenerate Sinner complaine that his Heart is not in Gods keeping For had he not throwne durt on it himselfe nay had hee not razed out of it the Image of the Deitie as a Thiefe doth the marke of stollen Plate that the owner should not know it God had still kept it But he keepes no defaced Hearts nor yet no counterfeit he keepes no carelesse vnregarded throwne-away hearts Heart keepe thy selfe must be the watchword that passion that meetes thee without that word let it not liue a minute longer for there is no greater Treason then selfe-Treason when the betrayer and the betrayed spell but one man But it troubled St. Austine much how the heart should keepe the heart when the heart would so seldome obey the heart It makes him begin with admiration The minde commands the body it is obeyd the minde commands it selfe it is resisted bid thy feet stirre or thy hands moue or thy eyes turn in a moment it is done with such ease and suddennesse that you can scarse distinguish the performance from the command but the Heart commands the Heart to will this or that good which it had not commanded had it not willed yet doth it not will what is commanded He ends with the admiration he began What Prodegie is this what Oedipus shall vnriddle it But the good Father findes it out at last For sayth he the Heart turnes but halfe a fide on good actions it lookes on them but with one eye if it chance to bid farewell to sinne it is as foolish friends part with many lookings backe many excuses stil one farewel more When Saint