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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. Our sufferings are light. 2 Cor. 4.17. This light §6affliction, &c. It is heavy to flesh and blood, but it is light to faith; affliction is light in a three-fold respect.
1. It is light in comparison of sin; he that feels sin heavy, feels suffering light; sin made Paul cry out, O wretched man that I am! Rom. 7. He doth not cry out of his iron chain, but of his sin; the greater noise drowns the lesser; when the Sea roars, the Rivers are silent; he that is taken up about his sins, and sees how he hath provoked God, thinks the yoke of affliction light, Micah 7.9.
2. Affliction is light in comparison of hell; what is persecution to damnation? what is the fire of Martyrdom to the fire of the damned? it is no more than the pricking of a pin to a deaths wound. Who knoweth the power of thine anger? Psal. 90.11. Christ himself could not have born that anger, had he not been more than a man.