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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. Faith gets strength from the promise; faith lives in a promise; take the fish out of the water, and it dies; take faith out of a promise, and it cannot live; the promises are breasts of consolation; the child by sucking the breast gets strength; so doth faith by sucking the breast of a promise. When a Garrison is besieged, and is ready almost to yield to the enemy, Auxiliary forces are sent in to relieve it; so when faith begins to be weak, and is ready to faint in the day of battle, then the promises muster their forces together, and all come in for faiths relief, and now it is able to hold out in the fiery trial.
3. Faith gets strength from the promise; faith lives in a promise; take the fish out of the water, and it dies; take faith out of a promise, and it cannot live; the promises are breasts of consolation; the childe by sucking the breast gets strength; so doth faith by sucking the breast of a promise. When a Garrison is besieged, and is ready almost to yield to the enemy, Auxiliary forces are sent in to relieve it; so when faith begins to be weak, and is ready to faint in the day of battel, then the promises muster their forces together, and all come in for faiths relief, and now it is able to hold out in the fiery trial.
4. Faith gives the soul a right notion of suffering; faith draws the true picture of sufferings; what is suffering? saith faith; it is but the suffering of the body, that body which must shortly by the course of nature drop into the dust. Persecution can but take away my life; an Ague or Fever may do as much; now faith giving the soul a right notion of sufferings, and taking (as it were) ⟨p. 384⟩a just measure of them, enables a Christian to prostrate his life at the feet of Christ.
4. Faith gives the soul a right notion of suffering; faith draws the true picture of sufferings; what is suffering? saith faith; it is but the suffering of the body, that body which must shortly by the course of nature drop into the dust. Persecution can but take away my life; an Ague or Feaver may do as much; now faith giving the soul a right notion of sufferings, and taking (as it were)