A96093:1949
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.
3. In other races the feet run, but in the Christian race the heart runs. Psal. 119.32. I will run when thou shalt enlarge my heart. In Religion the heart is all; that which the heart doth not, is not done*; 'tis not the lifting up of the eye or hand towards heaven that forwards the race, it is the out-going of the heart; many a mans tongue runs in Religion, but not his heart; Dost thou believe with thy heart? Rom. 10.9. Dost thou love God with thy heart? Matth. 22.37. This is to run the race of Religion; this rids away ground, and brings a Christian apace to the Goal; when Davids heart was enlarged, then he would run.
3. In other races the feet run, but in the Christian race the heart runs. Psal. 119.32. I will run when thou shalt enlarge my heart. In Religion the heart is all; that which the heart doth not, is not done*; 'tis not the lifting up of the eye or hand towards heaven that forwards the race, it is the out-going of the heart; many a mans tongue runs in Religion, but not his heart; Dost thou believe with thy heart? Rom. 10.9. Dost thou love God with thy heart? Matth. 22.37. This is to run the race of Religion; this rids away ground, and brings a Christian apace to the Gole; when Davids heart was enlarged, then he would run.
- *Quicquid cor non facit, non fit.