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THE hypocrites in heart heap up wrath.-Job, xxxvi. 13.

The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.--Proverbs, xiv. 10.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?--Jeremiah, xvii. 9.

A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.--Ezekiel, xxxvi. 26.

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.--Matthew, v. 8.

A good man, out of the good treasure of his heart, bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man, out of the evil treasure of bis heart, bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.-Luke, vi. 45.

Hope maketh not ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is given unto us.--Romans, v. 5.

With the heart man believeth unto righteousness.--Romans, x. 10. That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith.--Ephesians, iii. 17.

I CARE not, so my kernel relish well,
How slender be the substance of my shell;
My heart being virtuous, let my face be wan,
I am to God, I only seem to man. Quarles.

So now the soul's sublimed, her sour desires
Are re-calcined in Heaven's well-tempered fires;
The heart restored, and purged from drossy nature,
Now finds the freedom of a new-born creature;
It lives another life, it breathes new breath,
It neither fears nor feels the sting of death.

Quarles.

Young.

Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but Himself
That hideous sight-a naked, human heart.
The Almighty, from His throne, on earth surveys
Naught greater than an honest, humble heart;
An humble heart, His residence! pronounced
His second seat, and rival to the skies.

Wash, Lord, and purify my heart,
And make it clean in every part,
And when 't is clean, Lord, keep it too,
For that is more than I can do.

Young.

Thomas Ellwood.

A temple of the Holy Ghost, and yet
Oft lodging fiends; the dwelling-place of all
The heavenly virtues-charity and truth,
Humility, and holiness, and love-

And yet the common haunt of anger, pride,
Hatred, revenge, and passions foul with lust;
Allied to heaven, yet parleying oft with hell.

Pollok.

Consider well. The heart is a deceiver,
Or, paltering with it, in some double sense,
Thou'st shunned, perhaps, the word that would
condemn thee,

E'en while thy will was partner in the crime.

Schiller,

Thou too, my heart, whom He, and He alone,
Who all things knows, can know, with love replete,
Regenerate and pure, pour all thyself
A living sacrifice before His throne!

Christopher Smart.

Walk in the light! and sin, abhorred,
Shall ne'er defile again;

The blood of Jesus Christ, the Lord,
Shall cleanse from every stain.

Walk in the light! and thou shalt find
Thy heart made truly His,

Who dwells in cloudless light enshrined,
In whom no darkness is.

Bernard Barton.

All our actions take

Their hues from the complexion of the heart,

As landscapes their variety from light.

William Thompson Bacon.

Would'st thou the life of souls discern?
Nor human wisdom nor divine

Helps thee by aught beside to learn;
Love is life's only sign.
The spring of the regenerate heart,
The pulse, the glow of every part,
Is the true love of Christ our Lord,
As man embraced, as God adored.

Keble.

HEAVEN-HEAVENS.

THE heavens declare the glory of God.--Psalm xix. 1.

All the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree. --Isaiah, xxxiv. 4.

Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also --Matthew, vi. 20, 21.

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.--II. Corinthians, v. 1.

An inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven.--I. Peter, i, 4.

We, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.--II. Peter, iii. 13.

IN having all things, and not Thee, what have I?
Not having Thee, what have my labours got?
Let me enjoy but Thee, what further crave I?
And having Thee alone, what have I not?
I wish not sea nor land; nor would I be
Possessed of Heaven, Heaven unpossessed of Thee.

Shall we serve heaven

With less respect than we do minister
To our gross selves?

Quarles.

Shakspere.

Plenteous of grace, descend from high,

Rich in thy seven-fold energy!

Thou strength of his Almighty hand,

Whose power does heaven and earth command.

Inquirer cease, petitions yet remain,

Dryden.

Which heaven may hear, nor deem religion vain.

Still raise for good the supplicated voice,
But leave to heaven the measure and the choice.
Dr. Johnson.

Heaven's the perfection of all that can
Be said or thought, riches, delight, or harmony,
Health, beauty; and all these not subject to
The waste of time, but in their height eternal.

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Shirley.

Heav'n is a great way off, and I shall be
Ten thousand years in travel, yet 't were happy
If I may find a lodging there at last,

Though my poor soul get thither upon crutches.

I sat, one day, upon a stone,
'Rapt in a musing fit, alone,
And resting on my hand my head,
Thus to myself, in thought, I said—
"How in these times of care and strife,
Shall I direct my fleeting life?

Three precious jewels I require

To satisfy my heart's desire:

The first is honour, bright and clear;
The next is wealth; but (far more dear!)
The third is Heaven's approving smile."
Then, after I had mused awhile,

I saw that it was vain to pine

Shirley.

For these three pearls in one small shrine;
To find within one heart a place

For honour, wealth, and heavenly grace,
For how can one, in days like these,
Heaven and the world together please?

Gostick, from Walter Von Der Vogelweide.

As through the artist's intervening glass
Our eye observes the distant planets pass,

A little we discover, but allow

That more remains unseen than art can show:
So whilst our mind its knowledge would improve,
(Its feeble eye intent on things above,)

High as we may we lift our reason up,
By Faith directed, and confirmed by Hope:
Yet we are able only to survey

Dawnings of beams, and promises of day.

Heaven's fuller effluence mocks our dazzled sight;
Too great its swiftness, and too strong its light:
But soon the 'mediate clouds shall be dispelled;
The sun shall then be face to face beheld,
In all his robes, with all his glory on,
Seated sublime on his meridian throne.

Prior.

Friends, even in Heaven, one happiness would miss, Should they not know each other when in bliss. Bishop Ken.

All hail! all hail! resplendent vault, so wondrously

display'd,

Abyss, where the Eternal's hand the scattered scene array'd;

He gave them light; His mighty hand suspended them

alone;

And ever from the chilling north, to India's sultry

zone,

In every region of the west, and isle of southern sea, All raise, Oh! glorious firmament, their suppliant glance to thee!

Vast sea of air, with countless gems, I love on thee to gaze!

Oh empyreal space! Oh stars! I love your softened

rays;

Mysterious torches; ye have made the universe so bright!

Yet from this temple far above, ye bring your borrowed light;

What rapture fills thy spirit, borne on contemplation's

wing,

What charms, oh, beauteous canopy! thy varied aspects bring.

From the French of Anna H. P Le Chatelain

This world is all a fleeting show,

For man's illusion given;
The smiles of joy, the tears of woe
Deceitful shine, deceitful flow,

There's nothing true but heaven.

And false the light on glory's plume,
As fading hues of even,

And love, and hope, and beauty's bloom,
Are blossoms gathered for the tomb:
There's nothing bright but heaven.

Moore.