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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.
7. Get suffering graces, these three in particular.
1. Faith. 2. Love. 3. Patience.
1. Suffering grace is faith. Ephes. 6.16. Above ⟨p. 382⟩all taking the shield of faith; the pretence of faith is one thing, the use of faith another; the hypocrite makes faith a cloak, the Martyr makes it a shield; a shield is useful in time of danger, it defends the head, it guards the vitals; such a shield is faith, faith is a furnace-grace. 1 Pet. 1.7. Though it be tried with fire, it is found unto praise and honour. Faith like Hercules club, beats down all oppositions; by faith we resist the Devil, 1 Pet. 5.9. By faith we resist unto blood, Hebr. 11.34. Faith is a victorious grace; the Believer will make Christs crown flourish, though it be in his own ashes; an unbeliever is like Reuben, unstable as water, he shall not excel, Gen. 49.4. A believer is like Joseph, who, though the Archers shot at him, his Bow abode in strength. Cast a believer upon the waters of affliction, he can follow Christ upon the water, and not sink; cast him into the fire, his zeal burns hotter than the flame; cast him into prison, he is enlarged in spirit; Paul and Silas had their prison-songs.