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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.
Answ. But Christ is better than all, he is Manna to strengthen, he is wine to comfort, he is salvation to crown.
3. But liberty is sweet. Self-rea∣soning. 3
Answ. This restraint makes way for enlargement. Psal. 4.1. Thou hast enlarged me in distress; when the feet are bound with irons, the heart may be sweetly dilated and enlarged.
Thus should we put to silence those self-reasonings which are apt to arise in the heart against sufferings.
This self-denying frame of heart is very hard; this is to pluck out the right eye; one saith, a man hath not so much to do in over-coming men and Devils, as in overcoming himself. — Fortior est qui se, quam qui fortissima vincit Maenia.— Self is the Idol; and how hard is it to sacrifice this Idol, and to turn self-seeking into self-denial? but though it be difficult, it is essentially necessary to suffering; a Christian must first lay down self, before he can take up the Cross.