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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. 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.
6. Promises of compensation; God will abundantly recompence 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 finde it. These suffering promises should we treasure up, and by holy meditation suck sweetness and strength out of them.
9. Set before your eyes suffering examples, look upon §9others as patterns to imitate. Jam. 5.16. Take my Brethren the Prophets, [Greek or Hebrew], for an example of suffering affliction. Examples have more influence upon us than precepts; the one instruct, the other animate; as they show Elephants the blood of Grapes and Mulberries to make them fight the better; so the Holy Ghost shows us the blood of Saints and Martyrs to infuse a spirit of zeal and courage into us: Micaiah was in the prison, Jeremiah ⟨p. 390⟩in the Dungeon, Isaiah was sawn asunder. The Primitive Christians though their flesh was boiled, roasted, dismembered