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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. 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, Heb. 11.34.
3. Reproach works for good to Gods children, it increaseth their grace and their glory.
3. Reproach works for good to Gods children, it encreaseth their grace and their glory.
1. Disgrace increaseth their grace; the Husbandman by dunging his ground makes the soil more rich and fertile; God lets the wicked dung his people with reproaches and calumnies, that their hearts may be a richer soil for grace to grow in.
1. Disgrace encreaseth their grace; the Husbandman by dunging his ground makes the soile more rich and fertil; God lets the wicked dung his people with reproaches and calumnies, that their hearts may be a richer soile for grace to grow in.