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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.
5. In case of Martyrdom God hath made promises of consolation. John 16.22. Your sorrow shall be turned into joy; there is the water turned into wine. Acts 23.11. Be of good cheer Paul. In time of persecution God broacheth the wine of consolation; cordials are kept for fainting. Philip Landgrave of Hesse, professed see divinas Martyrum consolations sensisse. Stephen saw the heavens opened, Acts 7.56. Glover that blessed Martyr cried out at the stake in an holy rapture, He is come, he is come, meaning the Comforter.
5. In case of Martyrdom God hath made promises of consolation. John 16.22. Your sorrow shall be turned into joy; there is the water turned into wine. Acts 23.11. Be of good chear Paul. In time of persecution God broacheth the wine of consolation; cordials are kept for fainting. Philip Lantgrave of Hesse, professed se divinas Martyrum consolationes sensisse. Stephen saw the heavens opened, Acts 7.56. Glover that blessed Martyr cryed out at the stake in an holy rapture, He is come, he is come, meaning the Comforter.
6. Promises of compensation; God will abundantly recompense all our sufferings, in this life an hundred fold, and in the world to come life everlasting, Matth. 19.29. This Austin calls the best and greatest usury; our losses for Christ are gainful. Matth. 10.39. He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it. These suffering promises should we treasure up, and by holy meditation suck sweetness and strength out of them.