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Pv•••••• as a signe vpon thy har••.a 1.1 Be thou as wax, for euery forme; I vvil be the seale, and imprint the armes of my passion in thee.
1. Point. In the cōquered & vāquished Tower of the hart the victorious Ie∣sus, placeth the trophies & triumphs
of his passion, forsooth, as Lord and Master of the place, least any one he∣reafter may chance to chalenge it to himself, or seek to inuade it.
2. Point. There can be no such force or power of tēptations, which vvith the liuely apprehēsion of these armes may not vtterly be defeated; no ad∣uersity so great, which may not cheer∣fully be borne; no such alluremēts of worldly pleasures; which with a gene∣rous loathing may not be reiected.
3. Point How happy the soule which is nayled with Christ vpō the Crosse! how rich, while vnder that wood are found to be the riches of Heauen & earth! how defensible & secure against al the power of Hel, being the impre∣nable Tovver of Christians, whereon a thousand targets hangb 1.2 the whole armary of the strōg, either to endure the shock of the enemyes or to assaile them.
SHal be made by turnīg the speach, by way of Apostrophe, to al the symbols of Christs Passion, as nailes, lance, vvhips, and also vnto Christ himself, crauing most earnestly of him, as wel to conserue in our minds the memory of those things which he hath suffred for our sakes, as to admit vs into the society, and communion of his most bitter cha∣lice; that we may also merit one day to enioy our part of glory & eternal felicity.
Cant. 8.
Cant. 4.