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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. 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.
1. Faith. 1. When we can believe against sence and feeling; when we want an experience, yet can trust to a ptomise; 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.
2. Love. When God smiles upon us, it is not much to love him; but when he seems to put us away in anger*