A96093:1905
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 the ear; much sin is conveyed to the heart through the ear; the Apostle calls it [Greek or Hebrew], corrupt communication, Eph. 4.29. Because impure discourse corrupts and poisons the heart. Keep thy ear open to God, and shut to sin; deafen thy ears to the lies of the slanderer and heretic, let not him have thy ear, who comes to rob thee of thy heart.
2. Keep the ear; much sin is conveyed to the heart through the ear; the Apostle calls it 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, corrupt communication, Eph. 4.29. Because impure discourse corrupts and poysons the heart. Keep thy ear open to God, and shut to sin; deafen thy ears to the lies of the slanderer and heretick, let not him have thy ear, who comes to rob thee of thy heart.
5. If you would keep your heart, get Christ into your Answ. 5 heart. Eph. 3.17. That Christ may dwell in your heart: Nothing can hurt but sin; if Christ be in the heart, he will purify it, his Spirit is the refiners fire, Mal. 3.2. If Christ be in the heart, he will adorn it, he will bring in the rich furniture of his graces, and so beautify the hidden man of the heart, 1 Pet 3.4. If Christ be in the heart, he will defend it; the Castle of the heart can never be taken, if Christ be in it! Let Satan dig his Mines, lay his Train of powder, shoot his Balls of wild-fire; if the Lord of Hosts pitch his Tent in the heart, it can never be taken by storm.
5. If you would keep your heart, get Christ into your Answ. 5 heart. Eph. 3.17