A96093:1878
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.
Answ. 1 Answ. 1. Because they study not the preciousness of them; what a treasure is the heart? it is divinely ennobled, ⟨p. 543⟩it is capable of glory, but few know the worth of this jewel.
2 Men keep not their hearts, because they are taken up Answ. 2 in keeping other things. Cant. 1.6. My own vineyard have I not kept. Many a man may say I have been cumbered about the world, I have been keeping my estate, tending my lusts, but my own heart hath been neglected, my own vineyard have I not kept. Judas was keeping the bag, when he should have kept his heart.
2 Men keep not their hearts, because they are taken up Answ. 2 in keeping other things. Cant. 1.6. My own vineyard have I not kept. Many a man may say I have been cumbred about the world, I have been keeping my estate, tending my lusts, but my own heart hath been neglected, my own vineyard have I not kept. Judas was keeping the bag, when he should have kept his heart.
3. Men keep not their hearts, because they keep themselves Answ. 3 in sloth; to keep the heart requires diligence, and few are willing to put themselves to the trouble; but should not a Merchant keep his books of account because he finds some trouble in it?