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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.
Quest. Quest. What is the holy frame and posture in which I should keep my heart?
Answ. Answ. Keep thy heart awake. Cant. 5.2. My heart waketh. Psal. 108.2. I my self will awake early*; though we have been sluggish, yet now it is high time to awake out of sleep, Rom. 13.11. Take heed of sleeping in ignorance, impenitency, security; the heart is naturally asleep, sin may be compared to sleep.
- *Ut te ipsum serves non expergisceris? Hor.
1. A man that is asleep, his senses are tied up*; so a sinner whose heart is asleep in sin, his spiritual senses are taken away, he is not sensible of sin or wrath, Eph. 4.19. He is going to hell, but knows it not, he laughs in his sleep.
1. A man that is asleep, his senses are tyed up*; so a sinner whose heart is asleep in sin, his spiritual senses are taken away, he is not sensible of sin or wrath,