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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.
3. A tender heart trembles under Gods threatenings, Psalm 119.120. My flesh trembleth for fear of thee, 2 Chron. 34.27. Because thy heart was tender, and thou didst humble thy self before God, when thou heardst his words against this place, and didst rend thy clothes, &c. If the father be angry, the child trembles. When Ministers denounce the menaces and threats of God against sin, tender souls sit in a trembling posture; this frame of heart God delights in, Isa. 66.2. To this man will I look, even to him that trembleth at my word; a wicked man ⟨p. 300⟩like the Leviathan, is made without fear, Job 41.33. He neither believes the Promises, nor dreads the Threatenings; let judgement be denounced against sin, he laughs at the shaking of a spear; he thinks either that God is ignorant and doth not see, or impotent and cannot punish; the mountains quake before the Lord, the hills melt, the rocks are thrown down by him, Nahum. 1.5. But the hearts of sinners are more obdurate than the rocks; an hardened sinner like Nebuchadnezzar, hath the heart of a beast given to him, Dan. 4.16. a child-like heart is a tender heart; the stone is taken away.
3. A tender heart trembles under Gods threatnings, Psalm 119.120. My flesh trembleth for fear of thee, 2 Chron. 34.27. Because thy heart was tender, and thou didst humble thy self before God, when thou heardst his words against this place, and didst rend thy clothes, &c. If the father be angry, the child trembles. When Ministers denounce the menaces and threats of God against sin, tender souls sit in a trembling posture; this frame of heart God delights in,