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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.
This is the sad misery of an unregenerate person, he is in a state of Vassalage, he is under the tyranny of sin*. Justin Martyr used to say, It is the greatest slavery in the world for a man to be subject to his own passions: A wicked man is as very a slave as he that works in the Galley; look into his heart, and there are Legions of lusts ruling him; he must do what sin will have him; a slave is at the service of an usurping Tyrant; if he bid him dig in the Mine, hew in the Quarries, tug at the Oar, he must ⟨p. 333⟩do it. Thus every wicked man must do what corrupt nature inspired by the Devil bids him; if sin bids him be drunk, be unchaste, he is at the command of sin, as the Ass is at the command of the Driver; sin first enslaves, and then damns.
This is the sad misery of an unregenerate person, he is in a state of Vassaladge, he is under the tyranny of sin*. Justin Martyr used to say, It is the greatest slavery in the world for a man to be subject to his own passions: A wicked man is as very a slave as he that works in the Gally; look into his heart, and there are Legions of lusts ruling him; he must do what sin will have him; a slave is at the service of an usurping Tyrant; if he bid him dig in the Mine, hew in the Quarries, tug at the Oar, he must ⟨p. 333⟩do it. Thus every wicked man must do what corrupt nature inspired by the Divel bids him; if sin bids him be drunk, be unchaste, he is at the command of sin, as the Ass is at the command of the Driver; sin first enslaves, and then damns.
- *Quamobrem dignitatem tuam abjicis, teque servum peccati constituis? Bern.