A96093:791
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. 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*, they fly from that light which would discover sin; they hate that Physic of the Word which meeting with their ill humours, begins to make them sick, and trouble their conscience. A gracious soul loves that preaching best which makes an Heart-Anatomy.
2. A sincere heart is willing to come under a trial, Psal. 139.23. Search me O God, and try me; That mettal 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*, they flie from that light which would discover sin; they hate that Physick of the Word which meeting with their ill humours, begins to make them sick, and trouble their conscience. A gracious soul loves that preaching best which makes an Heart-Anatomy.
- *Tertul.