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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.
2. Evil things work for good to Gods children. Psal. 112.4. Unto the upright ariseth light in darkness.
1. Poverty works for good to Gods children; it starves their lusts, it enricheth their graces: James 2.5. Poor in the world, rich in faith. Poverty sends to prayer; when God hath clipped his children's wings by poverty, they fly swiftest to the Throne of Grace.
1. Poverty works for good to Gods children; it starves their lusts, it enricheth their graces: James 2.5. Poor in the world, rich in faith. Poverty sends to prayer; when God hath clipped his childrens wings by poverty, they flie swiftest to the Throne of Grace.
2. Sickness works for their good; it shall bring the body of death into a consumption. 2 Cor. 4.16. Though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day; like those two Laurels at Rome, when the one did wither, the other did flourish; when the body withers, the soul of a Christian doth flourish. How oft have we seen a lively faith in a languishing body? Hezekiah was better on his sick bed, than upon his Throne; when he was upon his sick bed he humbles himself and weeps; when he was on his Throne, he grew proud, Isa. 39.2. Gods children recover by sickness; in this sense, out of weakness they are made strong,