A96093:2276
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.
It must be cordial, Deutr. 26.16. The Lord thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes, thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thy heart. [Greek or Hebrew] Rom. 6.17. Ye have obeyed from the heart*. Obedience without the heart is like fire on the Altar without Incense. The heart is the seat of Love, and 'tis Love perfumes every duty. The heart makes service a Freewill offering, else it is but a tax: Cain brought his sacrifice, not his heart; it was rather a mulct than an Offering: Without the heart our Religion is like the Angels assuming dead bodies; those bodies did eat, and drink, and walk, but they had no soul to animate them. They did movere, not vivere: how many do but assume the duties of Religion; Obedience without the heart is hypocrisy. How canst thou say I love thee, when thy heart is not with me? Judg. 16.15.
It must be cordial, Deutr. 26.16. The Lord thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes, thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thy heart. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Rom. 6.17. Ye have obeyed from the heart*. Obedience without the heart is like fire on the Altar without Incense. The heart is the seat of Love, and 'tis Love perfumes every duty. The heart makes service a Freewill offering, else it is but a tax: Cain brought his sacrifice, not his heart; it was rather a mulct than an Offering: Without the heart our Religion is like the Angels assuming dead bodies; those bodies did eat, and drink, and walk, but they had no soul to animate them. They did movere, not vivere: how many do but assume the duties of Religion; Obedience without the heart is hypocrisie. How canst thou say I love thee, when thy heart is not with me? Judg. 16.15.
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