A96093:1893
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.
3. Sleep hinders from action; he that is asleep, cannot work; so a sinner fallen asleep in sin, cannot work out his salvation.
4. A man asleep, is in danger to be robbed, his money or jewels may be taken away; so while the sinner is asleep, he may be robbed of his soul; oh therefore keep thy heart awake, let the judgement of God on sinners be as an alarm to awaken thee, make that prayer of David, Psal. 13.3. Lighten mine eyes, that I sleep not the sleep of death.
4. A man asleep, is in danger to be robbed, his money or jewels may be taken away; so while the sinner is asleep, he may be robbed of his soul; oh therefore keep thy heart awake, let the judgement of God on sinners be as an alarum to awaken thee, make that prayer of David, Psal. 13.3. Lighten mine eyes, that I sleep not the sleep of death.
2. Keep thy heart jealous; towards others exercise charity, towards thy self jealousy; the better the heart is, ⟨p. 546⟩the more suspicious: Satan hath a party within us; the heart is not true to its self, therefore it needs excubation and caution; little did Hasael think what was in his heart, 2 Kings 8.13. Had one come to Noah, and said, Noah, Thou wilt be drunk shortly, he would have been ready to have defied him; there's all sin seminally in the heart; whether will not the heart run, if we do not guard it? it will run to Idolatry, Atheism, Incest: Be ever jealous; jealousy breeds vigilancy, and vigilancy safety; let thy heart be ever in thy eye, keep it in with the curb-bit of mortification.