A96093:1665
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.
1. In hiding the disease; the heart hides sin as Rachel did her fathers images, Gen. 31.34. Hasael did not think that he was so sick as he was; he could not imagine that so much wickedness (like a disease) should lie lurking in him, 2 Kings 8.13. Is thy servant a dog that he should do this great thing? As the Viper hath his teeth hid in his gums, so that if one should look into his mouth he would think it an harmless creature. So though there be much corruption in the heart, yet the heart hides it, and draws a veil over that it be not seen.
1. In hiding the disease; the heart hides sin as Rachel did her fathers images, Gen. 31.34. Hasael did not think that he was so sick as he was; he could not imagine that so much wickednesse (like a disease) should lie lurking in him, 2 Kings 8.13. Is thy servant a dog that he should do this great thing? As the Viper hath his teeth hid in his gums, so that if one should look into his mouth he would think it an harmlesse creature. So though there be much corruption in the heart, yet the heart hides it, and draws a vail over that it be not seen.
2. The heart holds a false Glass before the eye, making a man appear fair, and his estate very good. The heart can deceive with counterfeit grace; hence it is men are ⟨p. 483⟩insensible of their spiritual condition, and think themselves well when they are sick unto death.
2. The heart holds a false Glasse before the eye, making a man appear fair, and his estate very good. The heart can deceive with counterfeit grace; hence it is men are