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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.
SECT. 8.
That Christians should possess themselves before hand with thoughts of suffering.
Use 3 1. LET it exhort Christians to think before hand, and make account of sufferings;1 this reckoning before hand can do us no hurt, it may do us much good.
- 1Exhort.
1. The fore-thoughts of suffering will make a Christian very serious; the heart is apt to be feathery and frothy, the thoughts of suffering persecution would consolidate it; Why am I thus light? Is this a posture fit ⟨p. 367⟩for persecution? Christians grow serious in the casting up their spiritual accounts, they reckon what Religion must cost them, and may cost them; it must cost them the blood of their sins, it may cost them the blood of their lives.