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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.
Secondly, The sincere Christian serves God with the whole heart, Psal. 119.2. Hypocrites have a double heart, Psal. 12.2. An heart for God, and an heart for sin, Hos. 10.2. Their heart is divided; God loves a broken heart, but not a divided heart; an upright heart is a whole heart; the full strain and torrent of the affections runs out after God; a sincere heart follows God fully, Num. 14.24.
Secondly, The sincere Christian serves God with the whole heart, Psal. 119.2. Hypocrites have a double heart, Psal. 12.2. An heart for God, and an heart for sin, Hos. 10.2. Their heart is divided; God loves a broken heart, but not a divided heart; an upright heart is a whole heart; the full straine and torrent of the affections runs out after God; a sincere heart follows God fully, Num. 14.24.
2. A sincere heart is willing to come under a trial, Psal. 139.23. Search me O God, and try me; That metal is to be suspected which men are afraid to bring to the Touch-stone; a sound heart likes the Touch-stone of the ⟨p. 239⟩Word; he is for a searching Ministry. Hypocrites are veritatis lucifugae