A96093:1834
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.
4. For out of it are the issues of life:] [Greek or Hebrew] as the heart is the fountain of life; if the heart lives, the body lives; if the heart be touched, death follows: So the soul is a spiritual fountain, out of it issues either sin or ⟨p. 531⟩grace; from this spring-head flow the streams either of salvation or damnation.
4. For out of it are the issues of life:] 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 as the heart is the fountain of life; if the heart lives, the body lives; if the heart be touched, death follows: So the soul is a spiritual fountain, out of it issues either sin or ⟨p. 531⟩grace; from this spring-head flow the streams either of salvation or damnation.
In the words there is,
1. A duty, Keep thy heart.