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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.
3. Affliction is light in comparison of glory; the weight of glory makes persecution light; if saith Chrysostom, the torments of all the men in the world could be laid upon one man, it were not worth one hours being in heaven; and if persecution be light, we should in a manner set light by it; let us neither faint through unbelief, nor fret through impatience.
3. Affliction is light in comparison of glory; the weight of glory makes persecution light; if saith Chrysostom, the torments of all the men in the world could be laid upon one man, it were not worth one houres being in heaven; and if persecution be light, we should in a manner set light by it; let us neither faint through unbelief, nor fret through impatience.
7. Our sufferings are short. 1 Pet. 5.10. After the have suffered awhile; or as it is in the Greek, [Greek or Hebrew], a little; our sufferings may be lasting, not everlasting; affliction is compared to a cup, Lam. 4.21. The wicked drink of a Sea of wrath, which hath no bottom, it will never be emptied; but it is only a cup of Martyrdom, and God will say, Let this cup pass away. Psal. 125.3. The rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; the rod may be there, it shall not rest; Christ calls his sufferings an hour, Luke 12.53. Can we not suffer one hour? persecution is aspera, but brevis; though it hath a sting to torment, yet it hath a wing to fly: Isa. 35.10. Sorrow shall fly away; it is but awhile when the Saints shall have a Writ of ease granted them, they shall weep no more, suffer no more; they shall be taken off the torturing wrack, and laid in Christs bosom; the people of God shall not always be in the iron Furnace, a year of Jubilee will come; the water of persecution like a Land-flood, will soon be dried up.