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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.
1. Temporal evil. 2. Spiritual evil.
1. God screens off temporal evil. There are many casualties and contingencies which are incident to life; God mercifully, prevents them; he keeps watch and ward for his children, Psal. 7.10. my defence is of God. Psal. 121.4. he that keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The eye of Providence is ever awake; God gives his Angels charge over his children, Psal. 91.11. a believer hath a guard of Angels for his life-guard; we read of the wings of God in Scripture: as the breast of his mercy feeds his children, so the wings of his power cover them; how miraculously did God preserve Israel his first-born! he did with his wings sometimes cover, sometimes carry them, Exod. 19.4. He bare you as upon Eagles wings; an emblem of Gods providential care; ⟨p. 330⟩the Eagle fears no Bird from above to hurt her young, only the Arrow from beneath; therefore she carries them upon her wings, that the Arrow must first hit her before it can come at her young ones. Thus God carries his children upon the wings of Providence; and they are such, that there is no clipping these wings, nor can any Arrow hurt them.