A96093:731
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.
Some by pure in heart, understand chastity; others sincerity, Psal. 32.2. But I suppose purity here is to be taken in a larger sense, for the several kinds and degrees of holiness; they are said to be pure, who are consecrated persons, having the oil of grace poured upon them. This Purity is much mistaken.
Some by pure in heart, understand chastity; others sincerity, Psal. 32.2. But I suppose purity here is to be taken in a larger sence, for the several kinds and degrees of holiness; they are said to be pure, who are consecrated persons, having the oyle of grace poured upon them. This Purity is much mistaken.
1. Civility is not Purity; a man may be clothed with moral virtues, justice, prudence, temperance, yet go to hell.
1. Civility is not Purity; a man may be cloath'd with moral vertues, justice, prudence, temperance, yet go to hell.
2. Profession is not purity; a man may have a name to live, and yet be dead, Rev. 3.1. He may be swept by civility, and garnished by profession, yet the Devil may dwell in the house. The blazing Comet is no Star; The Hypocrites tongue may be silver, yet his heart stone. Purity consists in two things. 1. Rectitude of mind; a prizing holiness in the judgment, Psal. 119.30. 2 Conformity of will; an embracing of holiness in the affections,