HEARING-THE EAR.

THE ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.

PROVERBS, Xv, 31,

They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely. PSALM lviii, 4, 5.

The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them. PRO. VERBS, XX, 12.

FOR where there is no ear to be abused,

None will be found that dare to inform a wrong: The insolent depraver stands confused;

The impious atheist seems to want a tongue.

THIS is the slowest, yet the daintiest sense;
For even the ears of such as have no skill,
Perceive a discord, and conceive offence;

DANIEL.

And knowing not what's good, yet find the ill.
And though this sense first gentle music sound,
Her proper object is the speech of men;

But that speech, chiefly, which God's heralds sound,
When their tongues utter what His spirit did pen.
SIR JOHN DAVIES.

As Thou hast touched our ears, and taught
Our tongues to speak Thy praises plain,
Quell Thou each thankless, godless thought

That would make fast our bonds again.
From worldly strife, from mirth unblest,
Drowning Thy music in the breast,
From foul reproach, from thrilling fears,
Preserve, good Lord, Thy servants' ears.

From idle words that restless throng,

And haunt our hearts when we would pray,
From pride's false chime, and jarring wrong,

Seal Thou my lips, and guard the way:
For Thou hast sworn that every car,
Willing, or loth, Thy trump shall hear,
And every tongue unchained be,
To own no hope, O God, but Thee.

KEBLE.

IN time of service, seal up both thine eyes,
And send them to thy heart; that, spying sin,
They may weep out the stains by them did rise,
Those doors being shut, all by the ear comes in.
GEORGE HERBERT.

THE HEART-THE NEW HEART.

THE heart knoweth his own bitterness, and a stranger intermeddleth not with his joy. PROVERBS, Xiv, 10.

The hypocrites in heart, heap up wrath. JOB, XXXVI, 13. ·

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? JEREMIAH, Xvii, 9.

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 his heart, bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh. LUKE, vi, 45.

With the heart, man believeth unto righteousness. ROMANS, X, 10.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. MATTHEW, V, 8.

A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I wil. take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh EZEKIEL, XXxvi, 26.

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.

That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith. EPHESIANS, iii, 17.

THE heart unwarmed within,

Prayer is mere babbling, sanctity is sin.

JAMES SCOTT.

ALL our actions take

Their hues from the complexion of the heart,

As landscapes their variety from light,

WILLIAM THOMPSON BACON.

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.

FRANCIS QUARLES.

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

HEAVEN'S Sovereign saves all beings but Himself That hideous sight-a naked, human heart.

YOUNG.

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.

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,

YOUNG.

The pulse, the glow of every part,

Is the true love of Christ our Lord,

As man embraced, as God adored.

KEBLE.

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,

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

SCHILLER. (Peters' Translation.)

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.

FRANCIS QUARLES.

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.

WASH, Lord, and purify my heart,
And make it clean in every part;

BERNARD BARTON.

And when 'tis clean, Lord, keep it too,

For that is more than I can do.

THOMAS ELLWOOD.

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.

(See also REGENERATION.)

HEAVEN HEAVENLY RICHES.

EYE hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him. I. CORINTHIANS, ii, 9.

They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.

For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. REVELATIONS, vii, 16, 17.

In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. JOHN, xiv, 2.

An inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in Heaven. I. PETER, i, 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, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. II. CORIN THIANS, V, 1.

THERE is a world above,

Where sorrow is unknown;
A long eternity of love,

Formed for the good alone;
And faith beholds the dying here,
Translated to that glorious sphere.

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

WHERE that innumerable throng
Of saints and angels mingle song;

Where, wrought with hands, no temples rise,
For God Himself their place supplies;

Nor priests are needed, in the abode

Where the whole hosts are priests to God:

Think what a Sabbath there shall be,

The Sabbath of Eternity.

THOMAS GRINFIELD.