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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.
And that which may give Gods children holy boldness in prayer, is this; When they consider God not only in the relation of a Father, but as having the disposition of a Father. Some parents are [Greek or Hebrew], of a morose, rugged nature; but God is [Greek or Hebrew], the Father of mercies, 2 Cor. 1.3. He begets all the bowels in the world; in prayer we should look upon God under this notion, a Father of mercy, sitting upon a Throne of grace; we should run to this heavenly Father in all conditions.
And that which may give Gods children holy boldness in prayer, is this; When they consider God not only in the relation of a Father, but as having the disposition of a Father. Some parents are 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, of a morose, rugged nature; but God is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the Father of mercies, 2 Cor. 1.3. He begets all the bowels in the world; in prayer we should look upon God under this notion, a Father of mercy, sitting upon a Throne of grace; we should run to this heavenly Father in all conditions.
1. In our sins; as that sick child, 2 Kings 4.19. ⟨p. 332⟩He said unto his father, my head, my head! as soon as he found himself not well, he ran to his father to succour him: So in case of sin, Run to God, My heart, my heart! O this dead heart, Father quicken it; this hard heart, Father soften it; Father, my heart, my heart!