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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.
1. A tender heart grieves for sin; a child weeps for offending his father, Peter showed a tender heart, when ⟨p. 299⟩Christ looked upon him, and he remembered his sin, he wept as a child. Clemens Alexandrinus saith, he never heard a Cock crow, but he wept*: And some learned Writers tell us, that by much weeping there seemed to be as it were, Channels made in his blessed face. The least hair makes the eye weep; the least sin makes the heart smite. Davids heart smote him when he cut off the Lap of King Sauls garment? What would it have done if he had cut off his head?
1. A tender heart grieves for sin; a child weeps for offending his father, Peter shewed a tender heart, when ⟨p. 299⟩Christ looked upon him, and he remembred his sin, he wept as a childe. Clemens Alexandrinus saith, he never heard a Cock crow, but he wept*: And some learned Writers tell us, that by much weeping there seemed to be as it were, Channels made in his blessed face. The least hair makes the eye weep; the least sin makes the heart smite. Davids heart smote him when he cut off the Lap of King Sauls garment? What would it have done if he had cut off his head?
- *Da mihi Domine, in hoc exilio, lachrymarum fontem quem super omnem d•litiarum copiam •surio. Aug. l. de contrit. cord.
2. A tender heart melts under mercy: Though when God thunders by affliction, the rain of tears doth fall from a gracious eye, yet the heart is never so kindly dissolved, as under the Sun-beams of Gods mercy; see how Davids heart was melted with Gods kindness.