A96093:1856
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.
5. Keep thy heart in time of prosperity. The Moon, the fuller it is, the more remote it is from the Sun; and oftentimes the more full a man is of the world, the further his heart is from God. Deutr. 32.15. Jesurun waxed fat, and kicked; 'tis hard to abound in prosperity, and not abound in sin; a full cup is hardly carried without spilling; the Trees are never more in danger of the wind, than when they blossom; pride, idleness, luxury*, are the three daughters which are bred of plenty. Sampson fell asleep in Delilahs lap; millions in the lap of prosperity have slept the sleep of death. Agur prayed, Give me not ⟨p. 538⟩riches, Prov. 30.8. He knew his heart would be ready to run wild; the worlds golden apple bewitcheth. When God sets an hedge of prosperity about us, we had need set an hedge of caution and circumspection.
5. Keep thy heart in time of prosperity. The Moon, the fuller it is, the more remote it is from the Sun; and oftentimes the more full a man is of the world, the further his heart is from God. Deutr. 32.15. Jesurun waxed fat, and kicked; 'tis hard to abound in prosperity, and not abound in sin; a full cup is hardly carried without spilling; the Trees are never more in danger of the winde, than when they blossome; pride, idleness, luxury*, are the three daughters which are bred of plenty. Sampson fell asleep in Dalilahs lap; millions in the lap of prosperity have slept the sleep of death. Agur prayed, Give me not ⟨p. 538⟩riches, Prov. 30.8. He knew his heart would be ready to run wilde; the worlds golden apple bewitcheth. When God sets an hedge of prosperity about us, we had need set an hedge of caution and circumspection.
- *Multos felicitas p•ratai, pa victs reddidi.