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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.
3. The reason, for out of it are the issues of life.
Doctr. Doctr. It must be a Christians great care with all keeping to keep his heart; we are to keep our eyes, Job set a watch there. Job 31.1. I made a Covenant with mine eyes, &c. We are to keep our lips, David bridled his tongue. Psal. 39.1. I will keep my mouth as with a bridle; but especially we are to look to our hearts: Keep thy heart with all keeping. The heart like Dinah, will be gadding abroad, and it seldom returns home, but it is defiled: It was the saying of an Heathen, I never come home with such good desires as I went out with. Christian, thy chief work lies with thy heart, Keep thy heart. The Serpent when any danger is near, keeps his head; and to preserve his head, will expose his whole body to injury; so a wise Christian should especially keep his heart; he should adventure his skin to keep a wound from his heart. To amplify this, I shall show that the heart must be kept, 1. With all kind of keeping. 2. At all times. 3. The Reasons enforcing.
Doctr. Doctr. It must be a Christians great care with all keeping to keep his heart; we are to keep our eyes, Job set a watch there. Job 31.1. I made a Covenant with mine eyes, &c. We are to keep our lips, David bridled his tongue. Psal. 39.1. I will keep my mouth as with a bridle; but especially we are to look to our hearts: Keep thy heart with all keeping. The heart like Dinah, will be gadding abroad, and it seldom returns home, but it is defiled: It was the saying of an Heathen, I never come home with such good desires as I went out with. Christian, thy chief work lies with thy heart, Keep thy heart. The Serpent when any danger is near, keeps his head; and to preserve his head, will expose his whole body to injury; so a wise Christian should especially keep his heart; he should adventure his skin to keep a wound from his heart. To amplifie this, I shall shew that the heart must be kept, 1. With all kind of keeping. 2. At all times. 3. The Reasons enforcing.