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MY Kingdome, is not of this world, (a) for my Kingdome is thy hart, o soule deuout to God.
1. Point Consider how God see∣mes to make but litle reckoning of the rule, and gouernment of heauen & earth, in regard of the dominion and care he hath of mans hart; wherein, as in a breife epitome or abridgement, he summs and collects
togeather the whole perfection of the Vniuerse.
2. Point. Consider againe, how sweet the yoke of Christ is; compa∣red with the most cruel and direful tyranny of the deuil. For into what horrible vices and abhominations, doth not this wicked Tyrant and cruel butcher of soules, drawe men who are subiect to him? How farre this Lord differs from the genius of the world. For if this Impostour promise mountaynes of gold to his clients and followers, after a long & irksome bondage, after a tedious yoke, and loads of intollerable in∣iuries, which it layes vpon them, it really performes nothing but smoak of words & empty shadowes. Lastly, how diuerse this Masters benity is from the hard & cruel apprentiship of the flesh, which for a singular reward of most abiect seruices, re∣paies
nothing but a thousand sordi∣ties, and miseries, as wel of the soule as body.
3.Point. But on the contrary, where IESVS rules in the hart, the appetits, which were before vnbrid∣led, comply with the law of reason, and the soule-it-self, reduced as it were into the forme and order of a watch, being in tune and wel dispo∣sed, poyseth al her thoughts, words, and works, with iust weight and measure.