CORDIS PONDERATIO. Quod mihi donasti magno pro munere non est, Si neget hoc justi ponderis aqua bilan.x. The WEIGHING of the HEART. This Gift of thine will not appear so great, The WEIGHING of the Heart. PROV. XXI. 2. The Lord pondereth the heart. EPIG. 20. THE heart thou giv'st as a great gift, my love, If justice equal balance tell thy sight, ODE XX. 1. 'Tis true, indeed, an heart, He that would please me with an offering, 2. And there is none so poor, But, if he will, he may Bring me an heart, altho' no more, The sacrifice which I like best, is such As rich men cannot boast, and poor men need not [grutch. Yet 3. Yet ev'ry heart is not It must be purg'd from ev'ry spot, Tho' thou hast sought to circumcise, and bruise't, 4. My balances are just, My law's an equal weight; The beam is strong, and thou may'st trust Were thine heart equal to the world in sight, 5. And so thou seest it doth ; My pond'rous law doth press This scale; but that, as fill'd with froth, Thine heart is empty sure, or else it would 6. Search it, and thou shalt find It wants integrity; And yet is not so thorough lin'd With single-ey'd sincerity, As it should be: some more humility There wants to make it weight, and some more con [stancy. Whilst 7. Whilst windy vanity Doth puff it up with pride, Doth many empty hollows hide, It is but good in part, and that but little, 8. The heart, that in my sight Keep then thine heart till it be better grown, But if thou art asham'd To find thine heart so light, And art afraid thou shalt be blam'd, Add to my law my gospel, and there see The |