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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.
Quest. How shall we know that we have this regenerating work of the Spirit?
Answ. Two ways.
Answ. Two wayes.
By the pangs. By the products.
1. By the pangs; There are spiritual pangs before the new-birth; some bruisings of soul; some groanings and cryings out, some strugglings in the heart between flesh and spirit, Acts 2.37. they were pricked at their heart; The child hath sharp throws before the birth, so it is in the new-birth; I grant the new-birth doth recipere magis & ⟨p. 302⟩minus; all have not the same pangs of humiliation; yet all have pangs; all feel the hammer of the Law upon their heart, though some are more bruised with this hammer than others; Gods Spirit is a Spirit of bondage, before it be a Spirit of adoption,