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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.
1. In obedience; 1 Pet. 1.14. As obedient children. If a stranger bid a child do a thing, he regards him not; but if his father command, he presently obeys: Obey God out of love, obey him readily, obey every command. If he bid thee part with thy bosom-sin, leave and loath it. Jer. 35.5. I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups, and I said unto ⟨p. 344⟩them, Drink ye wine; but they said, We will drink no wine; for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father, commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, neither ye, nor your sons for ever. Thus when Satan and thy own heart would be tempting thee to a sin, and set cups of wine before thee, refuse to drink; say, My heavenly Father hath commanded me not to drink. Hypocrites will obey God in some things which are consistent either with their credit or profit, but in other things they desire to be excused: Like Esau, who obeyed his Father in bringing him Venison, because probably he liked the sport of Hunting, but refused to obey him in a business of greater importance; namely, in the choice of his wife.
1. In obedience; 1 Pet. 1.14. As obedient children. If a stranger bid a childe do a thing, he regards him not; but if his father command, he presently obeyes: Obey God out of love, obey him readily, obey every command. If he bid thee part with thy bosome-sin, leave and loath it. Jer. 35.5. I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups, and I said unto ⟨p. 344⟩them, Drink ye wine; but they said, We will drink no wine; for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father, commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, neither ye, nor your sons for ever. Thus when Satan and thy own heart would be tempting thee to a sin, and set cups of wine before thee, refuse to drink; say, My heavenly Father hath commanded me not to drink. Hypocrites will obey God in some things which are consistent either with their credit or profit, but in other things they desire to be excused: Like Esau, who obeyed his Father in bringing him Venison, because probably he liked the sport of Hunting, but refused to obey him in a business of greater importance; namely, in the choice of his wife.