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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.
CHAP. III.
Showing that the godly are in some sense already blessed.
Shewing that the godly are in some sence already blessed.
I Proceed now to the second Aphorism, or Conclusion, that the godly are in some sense already blessed. Blessed are —] the Saints are blessed not only when they are Comprehensores, but while they are Viatores. They are blessed before they are crowned. This seems a Paradox to flesh and blood; what reproached, and maligned, yet blessed! A man that looks upon the children of God with a carnal eye, and sees how they are afflicted, and like the ship in the Gospel, which was covered with waves, Matth. 8.24. would think they were far from blessedness. Saint Paul brings a Catalogue of his sufferings, 2 Cor. 11.24, 25, 26. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, &c. And those Christians of the first magnitude, of whom the world was not worthy, had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings; they were sawn asunder, they were slain with the sword, Heb. 11.36, 37. What? and were all these during the time of their sufferings blessed? A carnal man would think, If this be to be blessed, God deliver him from it.