A96093:1895
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. 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.
2. Keep thy heart jealous; towards others exercise charity, towards thy self jealousie; the better the heart is, ⟨p. 546⟩the more suspitious: 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, Atheisme, Incest: Be ever jealous; jealousie breeds vigilancy, and vigilancy safety; let thy heart be ever in thy eye, keep it in with the curben-bit of mortification.
3. Keep thy heart serious; take heed of a light heart. Zeph. 3.11. His Prophets are light. The heart of the wicked is vain, and in this sense is said to be little worth,