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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. Unbelief hardens the heart; these two sins are §2linked together, Mark 16.14. He upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart. Unbelief breeds the stone of the heart; he that believes not Gods threatenings, will never fear him; he that believes not Gods promises, will never love him. What is said of the Leviathan, is true of the unbeliever: Job 41.24. His heart is as firm as a stone. Unbelief first pollutes the heart, and then hardens it.
2. Unbelief hardens the heart; these two sins are §2linked together, Mark 16.14. He upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart. Unbelief breeds the stone of the heart; he that believes not Gods threatnings, will never fear him; he that believes not Gods promises, will never love him. What is said of the Leviathan, is true of the unbeliever: Job 41.24. His heart is as firm as a stone. Unbelief first pollutes the heart, and then hardens it.
3. Unbelief breeds hypocrisy: Atheists believe not §3that God is a jealous God, and will call them to account; therefore it is they put on a Mask of Religion, and are ⟨p. 234⟩Saints in jest, that they may play the Devil in earnest. 2 Tim. 3.4, 5. They pretend God, but Self is the Idol they worship; like Barge-men, they look one way, and row another. The unbeliever is the greatest hypocrite.