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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.
Answ. Gods love and his anger towards his children, Answ. are not opposita, but diversa; they may stand together, he is angry in love. Rev. 3.19. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten; we have as much need of afflictions as Ordinances: A bitter Pill may be as needful for preserving health as a Julep or Cordial. God afflicts with the same love as he adopts; God is most angry, when he is not angry †; his hand is heaviest when it is lightest*; affliction is an argument of son-ship. Heb. 12.7. If you endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons. Oh saith one,* sure God doth not love me, I am none of his child, because he doth follow me with such sore afflictions: Why, it is a sign of childship to be sometimes under the Rod; God had one son without sin, but no son without stripes; God puts his children to the School of the Cross, and ⟨p. 322⟩there they learn best*. God speaks to us in the Word, Children be not proud, do not love the world, walk circumspectly*: But we are dull of hearing; nay, we stop the ear: Jer. 22.21. I spake to thee in thy prosperity, but thou saidst I will not hear. Now saith God, I shall lose my child if I do not correct him; then God in love smites, that he may save; Aristotle speaks of a Bird that lives among Thorns, yet sings sweetly; Gods children make the best melody in their heart, when God hedgeth their way with thorns, Hos. 2.14. Afflictions are refining: Prov. 17.3. The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold