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Heart Treasure

Cultivating the inner life of faith

Oliver Heywood · First published in 1667

What do we store in our hearts—and what flows from that store into our lives? Oliver Heywood explores how Scripture, grace, prayer, and spiritual experience form a lasting treasure within.

22 chapters · preface & appendix

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Contents

  1. PrefacePrefatory Addresses
  2. Chapter 1The Introduction, containing the occasion, division, and exposition of the Text, and Observations from it.
  3. Chapter 2A Discovery of the Nature of a Treasure in general.
  4. Chapter 3A particular account of the Treasure meant in the Text, and of a Christians Treasure.
  5. Chapter 4How the Treasure of holy Thoughts thus laid in, is to be laid out.
  6. Chapter 5Reasons shewing the great necessity of laying up this heart-treasure.
  7. Chapter 6The last reason, shewing the advantages of this treasure.
  8. Chapter 7The first use is for Examination, whither we have this Treasure.
  9. Chapter 8The second use is for Conviction of four sorts of Persons.
  10. Chapter 9Vnprofitable Christians reproved.
  11. Chapter 10Instructions, shewing how a gracelesse heart may obtain a Treasure of good.
  12. Chapter 11General Directions, to help Christians how to get a Treasure of holy Thoughts.
  13. Chapter 12Four Directions more to help the Christians heart to this treasure of good Thoughts.
  14. Chapter 13What truths a Christian is to treasure up.
  15. Chapter 14What sort of Graces the Christian is to treasure up.
  16. Chapter 15What experiences are to be treasured up.
  17. Chapter 16How a Treasure of Comforts is to be laid up in the Heart.
  18. Chapter 17How a Christian is to maintain and encrease his Treasure.
  19. Chapter 18Four more Directions for maintaining an Heart-Treasure.
  20. Chapter 19A fourth Head of Directions, instructing the Christian in bringing forth good things out of this good Treasure.
  21. Chapter 20The fourth use, discovering the necessity, excellency, and commodity of having in the Heart the before-described Treasure.
  22. Chapter 21Five more advantages of having this treasure in the heart.
  23. Chapter 22Some Objections answered, and the Exhortation urged.
  24. AppendixAppendix: Meditation

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Read the complete work in English, Simplified Chinese, or Traditional Chinese. The bilingual reader aligns the English and Chinese paragraph by paragraph. Chinese Bible quotations follow the Chinese Union Version; original notes and explanations of textual differences accompany the text.