A96093:1906
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. 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. That Christ may dwell in your heart: Nothing can hurt but sin; if Christ be in the heart, he will purifie 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 beautifie 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 wilde-fire; if the Lord of Hosts pitch his Tent in the heart, it can never be taken by storm.
6. If you would keep your hearts, have a care to keep Answ. 6 your thoughts. Jer. 4.14. How long shall vain thoughts lodge within thee? What though you set a watch before the door of the lips, if you let your heart run out in vain impure thoughts? the heart is the presence-chamber which is to be kept for God; vain thoughts defile the Room, and make it unfit for God to come into. The thoughts make way for sin; while the mind is musing, the heart burns. David let his heart rove into wanton thoughts, and that