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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.
6. Get a suffering frame of heart.
Quest. What is that? Quest.
Answ. A self-denying frame: Answ. Matth. 16.24. If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and ⟨p. 376⟩take up the Cross. Self-denial is the foundation of godliness; and if this be not well laid, the whole building will fall. If there be any lust in our souls which we cannot deny, it will turn at length either to scandal or apostasy. Self-denial is the thread which must run along through the whole work of Religion; the self-denying Christian will be the suffering Christian; let him deny himself, and take up his Cross.
Answ. A self-denying frame: Answ. Matth. 16.24. If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and ⟨p. 376⟩take up the Cross. Self-denial is the foundation of godliness; and if this be not well laid, the whole building will fall. If there be any lust in our souls which we cannot deny, it will turn at length either to scandal or apostasie. Self-denial is the thread which must run along through the whole work of Religion; the self-denying Christian will be the suffering Christian; let him deny himself, and take up his Cross.