A96093:1858
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.
1. Because the heart is a slippery piece, Jer. 17.9. The heart is deceitful above all things; in the Hebrew it is [Greek or Hebrew] the heart is a Jacob above all things, the heart is a supplanter; if we are not very cautious and watchful, our hearts will put a cheat upon us. There is deceit in coin, in friends, in books; but the heart hath an art of deceiving beyond all, 'tis a desperate impostor*; the way of the heart is like a Serpent upon a Rock. O the pleats and folds, the subtleties and labyrinths of a self-deceiving heart! Let us a little trace the heart in its fallacies and stratagems, and see if there be not reason to lie sentinel continually, and set a strong guard about it. The heart will deceive us about things sinful. lawful. religious.
1. Because the heart is a slippery piece, Jer. 17.9. The heart is deceitful above all things; in the Hebrew it is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 the heart is a Jacob above all things, the heart is a supplanter; if we are not very cautious and watchful, our hearts will put a cheat upon us. There is deceit in coyne, in friends, in books; but the heart hath an art of deceiving beyond all, 'tis a desperate impostor*; the way of the heart is like a Serpent upon a Rock. O the pleats and folds, the subtilties and labyrinths of a self-deceiving heart! Let us a little trace the heart in its fallacies and stratagems, and see if there be not reason to lie sentinel continually, and set a strong guard about it. The heart will deceive us about things sinful. lawful. religious.
- *Grande profundum est homo. Aug.