Schola Cordis or the Heart of it Selfe, gone away from God brought back againe to him & instructed by him in 47 Emblems [by Christopher Harvey] |
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 | Schola Cordis or the Heart of it Selfe, gone away from God |  |
Christ.
'T is true, and so I will: but yet thou must
Doe something tow'rds it too: First, thou must lay
All sinne away,
And separate from that, which would
Our meeting intercept, and hold
Us distant still:
I am all goodnesse, and can close with ill
No more, then richest diamonds with dust.
How ever gay, and gloriously set forth,
Of any worth,
Compar'd with me, that am alone
Th' eternall, high, and holy One:
But place thy love
Onely on me, and on the things above:
Which true content, and endlesse comfort bring.
The cement, and the foder, which alone
Unites in one
Things that before were not the same,
But only like, imparts the name,
And nature too
Of each to th' other: nothing can undoe
The knot that's knit by love, if it be true.
And not in word alone, then I shall find
That thou dost mind
The things I mind, and regulate
All thine affections, love, and hate,
Delight, desire,
Feare, and the rest, by what I doe require,
And I in thee my self shall alwayes see.
'T is true, and so I will: but yet thou must
Doe something tow'rds it too: First, thou must lay
All sinne away,
And separate from that, which would
Our meeting intercept, and hold
Us distant still:
I am all goodnesse, and can close with ill
No more, then richest diamonds with dust.
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Then thou must not count any earthly thing,How ever gay, and gloriously set forth,
Of any worth,
Compar'd with me, that am alone
Th' eternall, high, and holy One:
But place thy love
Onely on me, and on the things above:
Which true content, and endlesse comfort bring.
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Love is the loadstone of the heart, the glew,The cement, and the foder, which alone
Unites in one
Things that before were not the same,
But only like, imparts the name,
And nature too
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The knot that's knit by love, if it be true.
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But if in deed, and truth thou lovest me,And not in word alone, then I shall find
That thou dost mind
The things I mind, and regulate
All thine affections, love, and hate,
Delight, desire,
Feare, and the rest, by what I doe require,
And I in thee my self shall alwayes see.
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