A96093:1851
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.
12. The heart must be kept at all times.
- 12. Keep the heart at all times.
1. Keep thy heart when thou art alone; it was Satan's subtlety to set upon Eve when she was alone, and less able to resist; he is like a cunning Suitor, that woes the daughter ⟨p. 535⟩when her Parents are from home; the Devil breaks over the hedge commonly where it is weakest. I confess privacy and retirement is good; had a Christian a fruitful heart, what sweet thoughts might he have of God when he is alone*! but alas, by reason of innate corruption, how many vain, proud, impure thoughts will be stealing into our hearts when we are most secluded from the world! The Fowls will be coming at the Sacrifice; the Devil will be shooting in his Balls of wild-fire, and when we least suspect him, will be treating with us to deliver up the Castle of our heart to him.
1. Keep thy heart when thou art alone; it was Satans subtilty to set upon Eve when she was alone, and less able to resist; he is like a cunning Suitor, that woes the daughter ⟨p. 535⟩when her Parents are from home; the Divel breaks over the hedge commonly where it is weakest. I confess privacy and retirement is good; had a Christian a fruitful heart, what sweet thoughts might he have of God when he is alone*! but alas, by reason of innate corruption, how many vain, proud, impure thoughts will be stealing into our hearts when we are most secluded from the world! The Fowles will be coming at the Sacrifice; the Divel will be shooting in his Balls of wilde-fire, and when we least suspect him, will be treating with us to deliver up the Castle of our heart to him.