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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. When we have good ends in our suffering; viz. that we may glorify God, set a seal to the truth, show our love to Christ. Matth. 10.18. When you shall be brought before Kings for my sake. The Primitive Christians did burn more in love than in fire; when we look at God in our sufferings, and are willing to make his Crown flourish, though it be in our ashes, this is that suffering which carries away the Garland of glory.
4. When we have good ends in our suffering; viz. that we may glorifie God, set a seal to the truth, shew our love to Christ. Matth. 10.18. When you shall be brought before Kings for my sake. The Primitive Christians did burn more in love than in fire; when we look at God in our sufferings, and are willing to make his Crown flourish, though it be in our ashes, this is that suffering which carries away the Garland of glory.
5. When we suffer as Christians. 1 Pet. 4.16. If any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed: To suffer as a Christian, is to suffer with such a Spirit as becomes a Christian, which is,
1. When we suffer with patience. Jam. 5.10. Take my Brethren the Prophets for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience. A Christian must not repine, but say, Shall I not drink the cup of Martyrdom which my Father hath given me? There should be such a spirit of meekness in a Christians suffering, that it should be hard to say which is greater, his persecution or his patience. When Job had lost all, he kept the breast-plate of innocency, and the shield of patience; an impatient Martyr is a Solecism.