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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.
5. The excellency of the heart lies in the purity of it. Purity was the glory of the soul in innocency; the §5purer a thing, is the better; the purer the air is, and the more free from noxious vapours, the better it is; the spirits of water distilled are most precious; the purer the gold is, the more valuable; the purer the wine is when it is taken off from the lees and dregs, the more excellent it is; the more the soul is clarified by grace, and taken off from the lees and dregs of sin, the more precious account God makes of it; the purer the heart is, the more spiritual it is; and the more spiritual, the more fit to entertain him who is a Spirit.
5. The excellency of the heart lies in the purity of it. Purity was the glory of the soul in innocency; the §5purer a thing, is the better; the purer the aire is, and the more free from noxious vapours, the better it is; the spirits of water distill'd are most precious; the purer the gold is, the more valuable; the purer the wine is when it is taken off from the lees and dregs, the more excellent it is; the more the soul is clarified by grace, and taken off from the lees and dregs of sin, the more precious account God makes of it; the purer the heart is, the more spiritual it is; and the more spiritual, the more fit to entertain him who is a Spirit.
6. God is good to the pure in heart, Psal. 73.1. God §6is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. We ⟨p. 252⟩all desire that God should be good to us; 'tis the sick mans prayer, the Lord be good to me. God is good to such as are of a clean heart.