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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.
5. Keep thy heart sublime. Col. 3.1, 2. Seek those things which are above. Keep down thy heart with the weight of humility, yet mount it up with the wing of heavenly-mindedness; when the heart is touched with the lodestone of the Spirit, it ascends. Thus you have seen the holy frame and posture the heart is to be kept in.
5. Keep thy heart sublime. Col. 3.1, 2. Seek those things which are above. Keep down thy heart with the weight of humility, yet mount it up with the wing of heavenly-mindedness; when the heart is touched with the loadstone of the Spirit, it ascends. Thus you have seen the holy frame and posture the heart is to be kept in.
Quest. Quest. What means is to be used for the keeping of the heart?
1. If you would keep your heart, keep the Word in Answ. 1 your heart. Psal. 119.11. Thy Word have I hid in my heart,1 that I might not sin against thee. The Word is a preservative and antidote to keep the heart from spiritual infection. What are all the golden precepts in the Word of God, but several receipts for the keeping of the heart? if a Mariner would keep his ship, he must have his eye to the Star and the Compass; the best way to keep our hearts, is to sail by a Scripture-compass.