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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.
SECT. 8.
Showing the Opposite to holy Mourning.
Shewing the Opposite to holy Mourning.
Having shown the nature of Mourning, I shall next show what is the Opposite to holy Mourning. The Opposite to Mourning, is hardness of heart, which in Scripture is called Cor lapideum, an heart of stone, Ezek. 36. An heart of stone is far from Mourning and Relenting; this heart of stone is known by two symptoms.
HAving shewn the nature of Mourning, I shall next shew what is the Opposite to holy Mourning. The Opposite to Mourning, is hardness of heart, which in Scripture is called Cor lapideum, an heart of stone, Ezek. 36. An heart of stone is far from Mourning and Relenting; this heart of stone is known by two symptomes.
1. Insensibility: A stone is not sensible of any thing; lay weight upon it, grind it to powder, it doth not feel; so it is with an hard heart, it is insensible of sin or wrath; the stone in the Kidneys is felt, but not the stone in the heart.