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The heart is a house of common resort into which
multitudes of thought like so many guests enter &
have free & open access only if it be sanctified it
ordinarily distils holy sweet & useful meditations
out of all objects as the Bee sucks honey out
of every flower & a good stomach sucks sweet
& wholsom nourishment out of what it takes
to itself so doth a hold heard (so far as it is sanctified)
convert & digest all into spiritual & useful
thoughts.

Thoughts will be crowding
in when we have done all we can yet let
them know that they part not unseen
where strict watch & ward is kept where majestrates
and marshalls and constables are diligent
to examine vagrant persons you shall have few
of them there.

We shoud set our hearts in order
every morning strengthen & perfume our Spirits
with some gracious meditations on God holiness
majesty emnipresence omiscience my soul
waiteth for the Lord (said David) more than they
that watch for the morning absence it if you
please when we first open our eyes there
stand many suitors attending on us to speak
with out thoughts even as Clients at Lawyers
doors but speak we first with our God
& he will say something to our hears and Settle
them for all the day after.