A96093:1884
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.
4. It reproves those who keep half of their heart, but not all; they have affections to good things, but let out some rooms of their heart to sin. Herod did many things, but he let out one room of his heart to the Devil, he lived in incest*. The true mother would not have the child divided; God will not endure to have the heart divided, he will have the whole heart kept for him.
4. It reproves those who keep half of their heart, but not all; they have affections to good things, but let out some rooms of their heart to sin. H•rod did many things, but he let out one room of his heart to the Divel, he lived in incest*. The true mother would not have the childe divided; God will not endure to have the heart divided, he will have the whole heart kept for him.
- *Ubi regnat peccatum, non potest regna•e Dei regnum Au•
Use 3 3. It exhorts Christians to keep their hearts: Merchants complain of losses at Sea;1 but whatever we lose, if we can keep our hearts, we shall do well enough: Keep thy heart with all diligence. This is I confess an hard work; Elijah found it easier to shut heaven by prayer, than to shut his heart from evil thoughts*; but this is the work every good Christian must set upon, the keeping of his heart.