A96093:1917
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.
1. If we do not keep our hearts, the Devil will keep them; shall we let Satan have them? when a rude Army gets into a Town, what work do they make? what Rapines, Plunders, Massacres? when Satan possesseth hearts, he carries them at last violently (as he did the Swine) into the Sea, Satan is first crafty, then cruel.
1. If we do not keep our hearts, the Divel will keep them; shall we let Satan have them? when a rude Army gets into a Town, what work do they make? what Rapines, Plunders, Massacres? when Satan possesseth hearts, he carries them at last violently (as he did the Swine) into the Sea, Satan is first crafty, then cruel.
1. He is crafty; his work is to fish for hearts, and he is very subtle; he hath his [Greek or Hebrew], his policies and stratagems, 2 Cor. 2.11.
1. He is crafty; his work is to fish for hearts, and he is very subtile; he hath his 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, his policies and stratagems, 2 Cor. 2.11.
1. He observes the humours of the body, and lays suitable baits; the Devil cannot know the heart, but he may observe the temper and constitution*; he tempts a sanguine man with beauty, a covetous man with gold; as the ⟨p. 553⟩