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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 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.
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 receits 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.
- 1Rules for keeping the heart.
2. If you would keep your heart, have a care what Answ. 2 company you keep, incorporate your selves into the society of the Saints; when the people of God are together, they heat and quicken one another; their counsels are seasonable, their prayers helpful. That ship is most likely to be preserved from Pirates, which goes with a Convoy: Christian, Wouldst thou keep thy heart safe in thy voyage to heaven, let the communion of Saints be thy Convoy, take heed of coming near such as are irreligious, they are infectious, and will poison thy heart; let thy delight be in them that excel in virtue, Psal 16.3. The