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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.
6. Faith picks sweetness out of the Cross; faith shows the soul God reconciled, and sin pardoned; and then how sweet is every suffering? The Bee gathers the sweetest honey from the bitterest herb. — Saepe tulit lassis succus amarus opem. — So faith from the sharpest trials gathers the sweetest comforts, faith looks upon suffering as Gods love token▪ Afflictions (saith Nazianzene) are sharp arrows, but they are shot from the hand of a loving Father; faith can taste honey at the end of the rod; faith fetches joy out of suffering, John 16.20. Faith gets an honey-comb in the belly of the Lyon, it finds a jewel under the cross; and thus you see how faith comes to be such Armour of proof; above all taking the shield of faith; a believer having ⟨p. 385⟩cast his Anchor in heaven, cannot sink in the waters of persecution.
6. Faith picks sweetness out of the Cross; faith shews the soul God reconciled, and sin pardoned; and then how sweet is every suffering? The Bee gathers the sweetest honey from the bitterest herb. — Saepe tulit lassis succus amarus opem. — So faith from the sharpest trials gathers the sweetest comforts, faith looks upon suffering as Gods love token▪ Afflictions (saith Nazianzene) are sharp arrows, but they are shot from the hand of a loving Father; faith can taste honey at the end of the rod; faith fetches joy out of suffering, John 16.20. Faith gets an honey-comb in the belly of the Lyon, it finds a jewel under the cross; and thus you see how faith comes to be such Armour of proof; above all taking the shield of faith; a believer having ⟨p. 385⟩cast his Anchor in heaven, cannot sink in the waters of persecution.