A96093:1048
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.
4. The fourth sign of Gods children, is, Zeal for §4God; they are zealous for his Day, his Truth, his Glory; they who are born of God, are impatient of his dishonour. Moses was cool in his own cause, but hot in Gods; when the people of Israel had wrought folly in ⟨p. 306⟩the golden Calf, he breaks the Tables: When Saint Paul saw the people of Athens given to Idolatry, his spirit was stirred in him, Acts 17.16. In the Greek it is [Greek or Hebrew], his spirit was embittered, or as the word may signify, he was in a Paroxysm, or burning fit of zeal. He could not contain, but with this fire of zeal dischargeth against their sin. As we shall answer for idle words, so for sinful silence; it is dangerous in this sense to be possessed with a dumb Devil. David saith, the zeal of Gods house had eaten him up, Psal. 69.9. Many Christians whose zeal once had almost eaten them up, now they have eaten up their zeal; they are grown tepid and neutral; the breath of preferment blowing upon them, hath cooled their heat: I can never believe that he hath the heart of a child in him, that can be patient when Gods glory suffers. Can an ingenuous child endure to hear his father reproached? though we should be silent under Gods displeasure, yet not under his dishonour: When there is an holy fire kindled in the heart, it will break forth at the lips; zeal tempered with holiness, is the white and sanguine, which gives the foul its best complexion.
4. The fourth sign of Gods children, is, Zeal for §4God; they are zealous for his Day, his Truth, his Glory; they who are born of God, are impatient of his dishonour. Moses was cool in his own cause, but hot in Gods; when the people of Israel had wrought folly in ⟨p. 306⟩the golden Calf, he breaks the Tables: When Saint Paul saw the people of Athens given to Idolatry, his spirit was stirred in him, Acts 17.16. In the Greek it is , his spirit was imbittered, or as the word may signifie, he was in a Paroxysme, or burning fit of zeal. He could not contain, but with this fire of zeal dischargeth against their sin. As we shall answer for idle words, so for sinful silence; it is dangerous in this sense to be possessed with a dumb Divel. David saith, the zeal of Gods house had eaten him up,