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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. Sensibility. The infant that is new-born, is sensible of the least touch; If the Spirit hath regenerated thee, thou art sensible of the ebullitions and first risings of sin, which before thou didst not perceive. Paul cries out of the law in his members, Rom. 7.23. The new-born Saint sees sin in the root.
2. Circumspection. He who is born of the Spirit is careful to preserve grace; he plies the breast of Ordinances, 1 Pet. 1.2. he is fearful of that which may endanger his spiritual life, 1 John 5.18. he lives by faith, yet passeth the time of his sojourning in fear, 1 Pet. 1.17. This is the first work of the Spirit in them who are made children, a regenerating work.
3. The Spirit of God hath a supplicating work in the heart: The spirit of adoption is a spirit of supplication, Rom. 8.15. Ye have received the spirit of adoption whereby we cry Abba Father. While the child is in the womb it cannot cry: while men lie in the womb of their natural estate, they cannot pray effectually, but when they are ⟨p. 303⟩born of the Spirit, then they cry Abba Father. Prayer is nothing else but the souls breathing it self into the bosom of its Father. 'Tis a sweet and familiar intercourse with God; as soon us ever the Spirit of God comes into the heart, it sets it a praying; no sooner was Paul converted, but the next word is, behold he prayeth