A96093:1907
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.
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 ⟨p. 550⟩made way for the act of adultery, 2 Sam. 11.4. Thoughts are Purveyors for sin; they do first start sin, and then the heart hunts it.
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 ⟨p. 550⟩made way for the act of adultery, 2 Sam. 11.4. Thoughts are Purveyers for sin; they do first start sin, and then the heart hunts it.
Answ. 7 7. If you would keep your heart, keep your accounts well; bring thy heart often to trial, put queries to thy heart; O my heart what dost thou? whether goest thou? see what work lies undone, what sin thou hast to bewail, what grace to strengthen; search thy evidences, examine thy title to Christ,