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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.
4. Persecution to Gods children works for good; the godly may be compared to that Plant which Greg. Naz. speaks of, It lives by dying, and grows by cutting*: The zeal and love of the Saints is blown up by sufferings, their joy flourisheth. Tertullian saith, the Primitive Christians rejoiced more in their persecutions than in their deliverance.
4. Persecution to Gods children works for good; the godly may be compared to that Plant which Greg. Naz. speaks of, It lives by dying, and grows by cutting*: The zeal and love of the Saints is blown up by sufferings, their joy flourisheth. Tertullian saith, the Primitive Christians rejoyced more in their persecutions than in their deliverance.
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5. Death works for good to the children of God; it is like the whirl-wind to the Prophet Elijah, which blew off his mantle, but carried him up to heaven; so death to a child of God is like a boisterous whirl-wind, which blows off the mantle of his flesh, (for the body is but the mantle the soul is wrapped in) but it carries up the soul to God; this is the glorious privilege of the sons of God; every thing that falls out shall do them good; the children of God when they come to heaven (as Chrysostom speaks) shall bless God for all cross Providences.
5. Death works for good to the children of God; it is like the whirle-wind to the Prophet Eliah, which blew off his mantle, but carried him up to heaven; so death to a childe of God is like a boysterous whirle-wind, which blows off the mantle of his flesh, (for the body is but the mantle the soul is wrapped in) but it carries up the soul to God; this is the glorious priviledge of the sons of God; every thing that falls out shall do them good; the children of God when they come to heaven (as Chrysostom speaks) shall bless God for all cross Providences.