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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.
2. Make use of all thy spiritual ammunition, meditation and prayer. Prayer is the great Ordnance; discharge this Cannon, and be sure to put the bullet of faith in, Mat. 21.22. 1 Pet. 5.9. If the Devil take the Garrison by storm, it will be sad, How did he rend and tear that man in whom he was! Mat. 9.18. it is easier letting Satan in, than getting him out. ⟨p. 534⟩Turpius ejicitur quam non admittitur hostis. If the Devil get the Garrison of thy heart, thou art his slave, and remember he gives no quarter.
2. Make use of all thy spiritual ammunition, meditation and prayer. Prayer is the great Ordnance; discharge this Cannon, and be sure to put the bullet of faith in, Mat. 21.22. 1 Pet. 5.9. If the Divel take the Garrison by storme, it will be sad, How did he rend and tear that man in whom he was! Mat. 9.18. it is easier letting Satan in, than getting him out. ⟨p. 534⟩Turpius ejicitur quam non admittitur hostis. If the Divel get the Garrison of thy heart, thou art his slave, and remember he gives no quarter.
5. Keep thy heart as thou wouldst keep a Prisoner. The heart is guilty, and is ready ever and anon to break prison; we had need lay bolts and fetters upon it. A prisoner in the Jail may promise fair that he will not stir, but when he sees an opportunity, if you do not watch him, he will file off his fetters, and be gone: So the heart promiseth fair, that it will keep from such sins; but if you be not careful, it will steal out to vanity; therefore keep thy heart as a prisoner; when thou perceivest it breaking loose, lay chains and fetters upon it, bind it fast with the terrors of the Law, keep it with the flaming sword of a reproof: Say to thy heart, as John Baptist to Herod,