A96093:1908
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. 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, 2 Cor. 13.5. Traverse things narrowly in thy soul, see if there be no sin countenanced; search as Israel did for Leaven, keep a Diary in thy heart, see how things go in thy soul, be not a stranger at home; for want of this plying with the heart, many are kept in the dark, and understand not the true state of their souls; they live known to others, but dye unknown to themselves.
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, 2 Cor. 13.5. Traverse things narrowly in thy soul, see if there be no sin countenanced; search as Israel did for Leven, keep a Diary in thy heart, see how things go in thy soul, be not a stranger at home; for want of this p•lying with the heart, many are kept in the dark, and understand not the true state of their souls; they live known to others, but dye unknown to themselves.
O what wisdom is it for a Christian to be much with his own heart; he that would keep his Estate, must keep his Account-books well. Christian, redeem time every day to turn over the book of conscience; trade with thy own heart, it will be stealing out to sin, call it often to account. Seneca would every night when his candle was out, ask himself what he had done that day? often reckonings keep God and the conscience friends.