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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.
Branch 2 2. IF we must be pure in heart, then we must not rest in outward purity; civility is not sufficient; a Swine may be washed, yet a Swine still; civility doth but wash a man, grace changeth him; civility like a Star, may shine in the eyes of the world, but it differs as much from purity, ⟨p. 229⟩as the Chrystal from the Diamond; civility is but strewing flowers on a dead corps; a man may be wonderfully Moralized, yet but a tame Devil; how many have made civility their saviour! Morality may as well damn as Vice; a Vessel may be sunk with gold, as well as with dung.
Branch 2 2. IF we must be pure in heart, then we must not rest in outward purity; civility is not sufficient; a Swine may be washed, yet a Swine still; civility doth but wash a man, grace changeth him; civility like a Star, may shine in the eyes of the world, but it differs as much from purity, ⟨p. 229⟩as the Chrystal from the Diamond; civility is but strewing flowers on a dead corps; a man may be wonderfully Moralized, yet but a tame Divel; how many have made civility their saviour! Morality may as well damn as Vice; a Vessel may be sunk with gold, as well as with dung.
Observe two things:
1. The civil person, though he will not commit gross sins, yet he is not sensible of heart-sins; he discerns not the Law in his members, Rom. 7.23. He is not troubled for unbelief, hardness of heart, vanity of thoughts; he abhors Jail-sins, not Gospel-sins.