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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.
Our cup is nothing to the cup which Christ drank; his cup was mixed with the wrath of God; and if he did bear Gods wrath for us, well may we bear mans wrath for him.
4. Great is the honour we bring to Christ and the Gospel by suffering; it was an honour to Caesar that he had such Soldiers as were able to fight with hunger and cold, and endure hardship in their marches. It is an honour to Christ that he hath such listed under him as will leave all for him; it proclaims him to be a good Master, when his servants will wear his Livery, though it be sullied with disgrace, and lined with blood; Pauls iron chain made the Gospel wear a golden chain. Tertullian saith of the Saints in his time, they took their sufferings more kindly, than if they had had deliverance*. O what a glory was this to the truth, when they durst embrace it in the flame! And as the Saints sufferings adorn the Gospel, so they propagate it. Basil saith the zeal and constancy of the Martyrs in the Primitive times, made some of the Heathens to be Christianized.
4. Great is the honour we bring to Christ and the Gospel by suffering; it was an honour to Caesar that he had such Souldiers as were able to fight with hunger and cold, and endure hardship in their marches. It is an honour to Christ that he hath such listed under him as will leave all for him; it proclaims him to be a good Master, when his servants will wear his Livery, though it be sullied with disgrace, and lined with blood; Pauls iron chain made the Gospel wear a golden chain. Tertullian saith of the Saints in his time, they took their sufferings more kindly, than if they had had deliverance*. O what a glory was this to the truth, when they durst embrace it in the flame! And as the Saints sufferings adorn the Gospel, so they propagate it. Basil saith the zeal and constancy of the Martyrs in the Primitive times, made some of the Heathens to be Christianized.