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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.
LET us put our selves upon the Trial,1 whether we are Use 2 pure-hearted or no. Here I shall do two things to show the signs of, 1. An impure heart. 2. A pure heart.
LET us put our selves upon the Trial,1 whether we are Use 2 pure-hearted or no. Here I shall do two things to shew the signs of, 1. An impure heart. 2. A pure heart.
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1. An ignorant heart is an impure heart; to be ignorant of sin,1 or Christ, argues impurity of heart. Nahash the Ammonite would enter into Covenant with the men of Jabesh-Gilead, so he might thrust out their right eyes, 1 Sam. 11.2. Satan leaves men their left eye, in worldly knowledge they are quick-sighted enough; but the right eye of spiritual knowledge is quite put out: 2 Cor. 4.4. Ignorance is Satan's strong hold, Acts 26.18. The Devils are bound in chains of darkness, Jude 6. So are all ignorant persons; impossible it is that an ignorant heart should be good; it is knowledge makes the heart good. Prov. 19.2. That the soul be without knowledge it is not good. For any to say, though their mind be ignorant, yet their heart is good; they may as well say, though they are blind, yet their eyes are good. In the Law, when the plague of Leprosy was in a mans head, the Priest was to pronounce him unclean: This is the case of an ignorant man, the Leprosy is in his head, he is unclean. That heart cannot be very pure which is a Dungeon: Grace cannot reign where ignorance reigns; an ignorant man can have no love to God. Ignoti nulla cupido; he cannot love that which he doth not know; he can have no faith; knowledge must usher in faith,