A96093:1843
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. Keep thy heart as thou wouldst keep a Garden: Thy heart is a Garden*, weed sin out of thy heart. Among the flowers of the Spirit weeds will be growing; the weeds of pride, malice, covetousness; (these grow without setting) ⟨p. 533⟩therefore every day be weeding thy heart by prayer, examination, repentance.
- *Ca•. 4.1•.
1. Weeds hinder the herbs and flowers from growing; the weeds of corruption hinder the growth of grace; where the weed of unbelief grows, it hinders the flower of faith from growing.
2. Weeds spoil the walks; Christ will not walk in an heart over-grown with weeds and briars. Christ was sometimes among the lilies, Cant. 6.3. never among the thistles. Poor sinner, thou complainest thou hast not communion with God; time was when God did make himself known to thee, but now he is grown strange, and never comes near thee; this is the reason, sin hath spoiled Christs walks; thy heart lies like the field of the sluggard, Prov. 24.30. And will Christ walk there? Indeed we read Christ was once in the wilderness when he was tempted,