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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.
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, Psal. 119.97. A pure soil is cast into the mould of holiness; holiness is a blood runs in his veins.
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 Divel 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 minde; a prizing holinesse in the judgment, Psal. 119.30. 2 Conformity of will; an embracing of holinesse in the affections, Psal. 119.97. A pure soil is cast into the mould of holinesse; holinesse is a blood runs in his veines.
12 The subject of purity; The Heart. Pure in heart. Purity of heart doth not exclude purity of life; no more than the pureness of the fountain excludes the pureness of the stream. But it is called Purity of heart, because this is the main thing in Religion, and there can be no purity of life without it. A Christians great care should be to keep the heart pure, as one would especially preserve the spring from being poisoned. In a Duel, a man will chiefly guard and fence his heart; so a wise Christian should above all things keep his heart pure; take heed the love of sin doth not get in there, lest it prove mortal.