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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.
1. Sometimes it signifies munire, to arm or fence; a stroke at the heart kills; fence thy heart.
1. Sometimes it signifies munire, to arm or fence; a stroak at the heart kills; fence thy heart.
2. Sometimes it signifies c•rare, to take care of a thing that it be not lost; as one would take care of a piece of plate, that it be not taken away.
3. Sometimes it signifies custodire, to keep in safe custody; so keep thy heart, lock it up safe, that it may be forth-coming when God calls for it.
2. Thy heart;] [Greek or Hebrew] the heart is taken diversly in Scripture; sometimes it is taken for the vital part, Judg. 19.5. sometimes for the soul, Deutr. 13.3. sometimes for the mind, Prov. 10.8