A96093:1832
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.
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. sometimes for the conscience, 1 John 3.20. sometimes for the will and affections, Psal. 119.36. I shall take it in its full latitude, for the whole soul with all its noble faculties and endowments; this is the depositum, or charge every man is entrusted with, the heart.
2. Thy heart;] 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 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. sometimes for the conscience, 1 John 3.20. sometimes for the will and affections, Psal. 119.36. I shall take it in its full latitude, for the whole soul with all its noble faculties and endowments; this is the depositum, or charge every man is entrusted with, the heart.
3. With all diligence;] the original carries it [Greek or Hebrew] with all keeping; the Hebrew word [Greek or Hebrew] signifies to keep with watch and ward; a Christian is to set a continual guard about his heart. Some read the words, Keep thy heart, supra omnem custodiam, above all keeping