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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. Purity; God lets his children be in the Furnace, that they may be partakers of his holiness, Hebr. 12.10. The Cross is physic, it purgeth out pride, impatience, love of the world; God washeth his people in bloody waters, to get out their spots, and make them look white, Dan. 12.10. I am black, but comely, Cant. 1.5. The torrid zone of persecution made the Spouses skin black, but her soul fair; see how differently afflictions work upon the wicked and godly; they make the one worse, the other better. Take a cloth that is rotten, if you scour and rub it, it frets and tears; but if you scour a piece of ⟨p. 353⟩Plate, it looks brighter. When afflictions are upon the wicked, they fret against God, and tear themselves in impatience; but when the godly are scoured by these, they look brighter.
2. Purity; God lets his children be in the Furnace, that they may be partakers of his holiness, Hebr. 12.10. The Cross is physick, it purgeth out pride, impatience, love of the world; God washeth his people in bloody waters, to get out their spots, and make them look white, Dan. 12.10. I am black, but comely, Cant. 1.5. The torrid zone of persecution made the Spouses skin black, but her soul fair; see how differently afflictions work upon the wicked and godly; they make the one worse, the other better. Take a cloth that is rotten, if you scowre and rub it, it frets and tears; but if you scowre a piece of ⟨p. 353⟩Plate, it looks brighter. When afflictions are upon the wicked, they fret against God, and tear themselves in impatience; but when the godly are scowred by these, they look brighter.