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The beatitudes
The beatitudes: or A discourse upon part of Christs famous Sermon on the Mount. Whereunto is added Christs various fullness. The preciousness of the soul. The souls malady and cure. The beauty of grace. The spiritual watch. The heavenly race. The sacred anchor. The trees of righteousness. The perfume of love. The good practitioner. By Thomas Watson, minister of the word at Stephens Walbrook in the city of London.The beatitudes: or A discourse upon part of Christs famous Sermon on the Mount. Wherunto is added Christs various fulnesse. The preciousnesse of the soul. The souls malady and cure. The beauty of grace. The spiritual watch. The heavenly race. The sacred anchor. The trees of righteousnesse. The perfume of love. The good practitioner. By Thomas Watson, minister of the word at Stephens Walbrook in the city of London.
London: printed for Ralph Smith, 1660
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. Take heed of a facile spirit; a facile-spirited man §3will be turned any way with a word; he will be wrought as wax; he is so tame, that you may lead him whither you will. Rom. 16.18. With fair speeches they deceive the hearts of the simple. A facile Christian is malleable to any thing, he is like wool that will take any dye; he is a weak reed that will be blown any way with the breath of men; one day you may persuade him to engage in a good cause, the next day to desert it; he is not ex quercu sed ex salice; he is made of willow, he will bend every way: Oh take heed of a facile spirit; 'tis not ingenuity, but folly to suffer ones self to be abused. A good Christian is like Mount Zion, that cannot be moved, Psal. 125.1. He is like Fabricius, of whom it was said, a man might as well alter the course of the Sun, as turn him aside from doing justice. A good Christian must be firm to his resolution; if he be not a fixed, he will be a falling star.
3. Take heed of a facil spirit; a facil-spirited man §3will be turned any way with a word; he will be wrought as wax; he is so tame, that you may lead him whither you will. Rom. 16.18. With fair speeches they deceive the hearts of the simple. A facil Christian is malleable to any thing, he is like wool that will take any dye; he is a weak reed that will be blown any way with the breath of men; one day you may perswade him to engage in a good cause, the next day to desert it; he is not ex quercu sed ex salice; he is made of willow, he will bend every way: Oh take heed of a facil spirit; 'tis not ingenuity, but folly to suffer ones self to be abused. A good Christian is like Mount Sion, that cannot be moved, Psal. 125.1. He is like Fabricius, of whom it was said, a man might as well alter the course of the Sun, as turn him aside from doing justice. A good Christian must be firme to his resolution; if he be not a fixed, he will be a falling star.