A96093:1339
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.
4. To deny your selves, is but what others have §4done before you. Moses was a self-denier, he denied the honours and profits of the Court, Hebr. 11.25. Abraham denied his own Country at Gods call, Hebr. 11.8. Marcus Arethusus who lived in the time of Julian the Emperor, endured great torments for Religion; if he would but have given an half-penny towards the rebuilding of the Idols Temple, he might have been released; but he would not do it, though the giving of an half-penny might have saved his life; here was a self-denying Saint.
4. To deny your selves, is but what others have §4done before you. Moses was a self-denier, he denied the honours and profits of the Court, Hebr. 11.25. Abraham denied his own Country at Gods call, Hebr. 11.8. Marcus Arethusus who lived in the time of Julian the Emperour, endured great torments for Religion; if he would but have given an half-penny towards the rebuilding of the Idols Temple, he might have been released; but he would not do it, though the giving of an half-penny might have saved his life; here was a self-denying Saint.
5. There is a time shortly coming, that if you do §5not deny the world for Christ, the world will deny you; the world now denies satisfaction, and ere long it will deny house-room; it will not suffer you so much as to breath in it, it will turn you out of possession; and which is worse, not only the world will deny you, but Christ will deny you.