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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.
SECT. 6.
Means for heart-purity.
BUT how shall we attain to heart-purity? 1. Often look into the Word of God. John 15.3. Now ye are clean through the Word. Psal. 119.140. Thy Word is very pure: Gods Word is pure, not only for the matter of it, but the effect, because it makes us pure: John 17.17. Sanctify them through thy truth, thy Word is truth. By looking into this pure Chrystal we are changed into the image of it; the Word is both a glass to show us the spots of our souls, and a laver to wash them away; the Word breaths nothing but purity; it irradiates the mind, it consecrates the heart.
BUT how shall we attain to heart-purity? 1. Often look into the Word of God. John 15.3. Now ye are clean through the Word. Psal. 119.140. Thy Word is very pure: Gods Word is pure, not only for the matter of it, but the effect, because it makes us pure: John 17.17. Sanctifie them through thy truth, thy Word is truth. By looking into this pure Chrystal we are changed into the image of it; the Word is both a glass to shew us the spots of our souls, and a lavor to wash them away; the Word breaths nothing but purity; it irradiates the mind, it consecrates the heart.