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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.
3. Willingness to suffer any thing so he may have a sight of God. A child of God could be content with Simon of Cyrene, to carry the Cross, if he were sure Christ were upon it; he could willingly die, if with Simeon he might die with Christ in his arms. Behold here, the seed of God in a believer; the work of sanctification, when he wants the wine of consolation.
3. Willingnesse to suffer any thing so he may have a sight of God. A child of God could be content with Simon of Cyrene, to carry the Crosse, if he were sure Christ were upon it; he could willingly die, if with Simeon he might die with Christ in his armes. Behold here, the seed of God in a believer; the work of sanctification, when he wants the wine of consolation.
Answ. 2 Answ. 2. I answer, God hath a design of mercy in hiding his face from his adopted ones.
First, it is for the trial of grace; and there are two graces brought to trial in time of desertion.
1. Faith. 1. When we can believe against sense and feeling; when we want an experience, yet can trust to a promise; when we have not the kisses of Gods mouth, yet can cleave to the word of his mouth; this is faith indeed; here is the sparkling of the Diamond.