A96093:1902
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.
Answ. 3 3. If you would keep your heart, watch over your passions; the heart is ready to be destroyed by its own passion, as the Vessel is to be overturned with the Sail; the heart doth sometimes sink in sorrow, swell with anger, and abound excessively with carnal joy. Diagoras seeing his three sons in one day crowned Conquerors, dyed for joy. Passion transports beyond the bounds of reason, 'tis a kind of frenzy that possesseth. Lay the curb-bit of restraint upon your passions, or your hearts will run wild in sin; take heed of inflaming your spirits, as a man would avoid those wines and strong waters that may heat his blood; cut off all occasions that may awaken this FURY, take away the fuel that feeds this fire. When this viper of passion begins to gather heat, pray it down: Prayer, saith Luther, takes down the swelling of the soul, and abates the heat of inordinate affections. How dangerous are these fiery exhalations! Moses in a passion spake unadvisedly with his lips, Psal. 106.33. A man in a rage is like a ship in a Tempest, that hath neither Pilot or Sails▪ or Oars to help it, but is exposed to the Waves and Rocks; how many have lost their hearts in a storm!
Answ. 3 3. If you would keep your heart, watch over your passions; the heart is ready to be destroyed by its own passion, as the Vessel is to be overturned with the Sail; the heart doth sometimes sink in sorrow, swell with anger, and abound excessively with carnal joy. Diagoras seeing his three sons in one day crowned Conquerors, dyed for joy. Passion transports beyond the bounds of reason, 'tis a kind of phrensie that possesseth. Lay the curben-bit of restraint upon your passions, or your hearts will run wilde in sin; take heed of enflaming your spirits, as a man would avoid those wines and strong waters that may heat his blood; cut off all occasions that may awaken this FURY, take away the fuel that feeds this fire. When this viper of passion begins to gather heat, pray it down: Prayer, saith Luther, takes down the swelling of the soul, and abates the heat of inordinate affections. How dangerous are these fiery exhalations! Moses in a passion spake unadvisedly with his lips, Psal. 106.33. A man in a rage is like a ship in a Tempest, that hath neither Pilot or Sails▪ or Oars to help it, but is exposed to the Waves and Rocks; how many have lost their hearts in a storm!