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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.
10. Grace hath an heart-establishing excellency. Hebr. Excellency. 10 13.9. It is a good thing that the heart be established with grace. Before the infusion of grace, the heart is like a Ship without a Ballast; it wavers, and tosseth, being ready to overturn; therefore a man void of grace, is called [Greek or Hebrew]. a double-minded man, Jam. 1.8. He acts for and against, as if he had two souls; he is unresolved, to day of one mind, to morrow of another; to day he will hear a Preacher that is Orthodox, to morrow one that is Heterodox; he will be as the Times are, and change his Religion as fast as the Chameleon his colour. Hearts unsanctified will be unsettled; they will face about to the rising side; they will follow not what is best, but what is safest; they are for that Religion not which hath the Word to guide it, but the sword to back it; this Seneca calls a mind that rolls up and down*, and settles nowhere.
10. Grace hath an heart-establishing excellency. Hebr. Excellency. 10 13.9. It is a good thing that the heart be established with grace. Before the infusion of grace, the heart is like a Ship without a Ballast; it wavers, and tosseth, being ready to overturn; therefore a man void of grace, is called 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. a double-minded man, Jam. 1.8. He acts for and against, as if he had two souls; he is unresolved, to day of one minde, to morrow of another; to day he will hear a Preacher that is Orthodox, to morrow one that is Heterodox; he will be as the Times are, and change his Religion as fast as the Camelion his colour. Hearts unsanctified will be unsetled; they will face about to the rising side; they will follow not what is best, but what is safest; they are for that Religion not which hath the Word to guide it, but the sword to back it; this Seneca calls a minde that rolls up and down*, and settles nowhere.
- *Nusquam residentis animi volutatio. Seneca.