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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. The heart will apologize for sin, masking over bad transactions with golden pretences.
3. The heart will tell a man he may keep his sin, and keep his Religion too. 2 Kings 17.33. They feared the Lord, and served their own gods. The heart will secretly suggest to a man thus, as long as he goes to Church, and gives alms, he may secretly indulge corruption; as if duty gave a man a Patent and License to sin.
3. The heart will tell a man he may keep his sin, and keep his Religion too. 2 Kings 17.33. They feared the Lord, and served their own gods. The heart will secretly suggest to a man thus, as long as he goes to Church, and gives almes, he may secretly indulge corruption; as if duty gave a man a Pattent and License to sin.
4. The heart will quote Scripture to justify sin. 1 Cor. 9.20, 22. To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews, I am made all things to all men, &c. This Text the heart will bring for sinful compliance. O subtle heart that canst find out Scripture to damn thy self! though Saint Paul in things indifferent would conform to others, that he might save their souls, yet he would not to gratify them violate a Law, or deny an Article of his Greed; and if the heart is so treacherous, (being always more ready to excuse sin than examine it) what care and circumspection should we use in keeping our hearts, that they do not decoy us into sin before we are aware.