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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.
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.
1. He must deny self-ease; the flesh cries out for ease, it is loth to put its neck under Christs yoke, or stretch it self upon the Cross; the flesh cries out there is a Lyon in the way, Prov. 22.13. We must deny our self-ease; they that lean on the soft pillow of sloth, will hardly take up the Cross. 2 Tim. 2.3. Thou as a good Soldier of Christ endure hardness. We must force a way to heaven through sweat and blood. Caesars Soldiers did fight with hunger and cold.
1. He must deny self-ease; the flesh cries out for ease, it is loth to put its neck under Christs yoke, or stretch it self upon the Cross; the flesh cries out there is a Lyon in the way, Prov. 22.13. We must deny our self-ease; they that lean on the soft pillow of sloath, will hardly take up the Cross.