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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.
2. The prayers of Gods children indited by the Spirit, are ardent prayers. Ye have received the Spirit, whereby we cry Abba, Father, Rom. 8.15. Father, that implies Faith; we cry, that implies fervency. The incense was to be laid upon burning coals, Lev. 16.12. The incense was a type of prayer; the burning coals of ardency in prayer: Elijah prayed earnestly, Jam. 5.17. In the Greek it is [Greek or Hebrew],1, IN PRAYING HE PRAYED; that is, he did it with vehemency†; in prayer the heart must boil over with heat of affection: Prayer is compared to groans unutterable*, it alludes to a woman that is in pangs. We should be in pangs when we are travelling for mercy; such prayer commands God himself, Isa. 45.11.
2. The prayers of Gods children indited by the Spirit, are ardent prayers. Ye have received the Spirit, whereby we cry Abba, Father, Rom. 8.15. Father, that implies Faith; we cry, that implies fervency. The incense was to be laid upon burning coals, Lev. 16.12. The incense was a type of prayer; the burning coals of ardency in prayer: Elias prayed earnestly, Jam. 5.17. In the Greek it is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉,1, IN PRAYING HE PRAYED; that is, he did it with vehemency†; in prayer the heart must boyle over with heat of affection: Prayer is compared to groans unutterable*