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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. A man must deny RELATIVE SELF, his dearest Relations if God calls; if our nearest alliance, father or mother stand in our way, and would hinder us from doing our duty, we must either leap over them, or ⟨p. 377⟩tread upon them. Luke 14.26. If any man come to me, and hate not father and mother, and wife, and children, &c. he cannot be my Disciple. Relations must not weigh heavier than Christ.
3. A man must deny natural self; he must be willing to become a sacrifice, and make Christs Crown flourish, though it be in his ashes. Luk. 14.26. Rev. 12.11. They loved not their lives unto the death: Jesus Christ was dearer to them than their own heart-blood.
4. A man must deny carnal self; this I take to be the chief sense of the Text.