A96093:1383
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.
9. He that refuseth to suffer persecution, shall never §9be free from suffering,
1. Internal sufferings; he that will not suffer for conscience, shall suffer in conscience; thus Francis Spira, after he had for fear abjured that doctrine which once he professed, was in great terror of mind, and became a very Anatomy; he professed he felt the very pains of the damned in his soul; he who was afraid of the stake, was set upon the wrack of conscience.
1. Internal sufferings; he that will not suffer for conscience, shall suffer in conscience; thus Francis Spira, after he had for fear abjur'd that doctrine which once he professed, was in great terrour of minde, and became a very Anatomy; he professed he felt the very pains of the damned in his soul; he who was afraid of the stake, was set upon the wrack of conscience.
2. External sufferings. Pendleton who refused to suffer for Christ, not long after, his house was on fire, and he was burned in it; he who would not burn for Christ, was afterwards made to burn for his sins.