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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.
1. They are blessed, who have God for their God. Psal. 144.15. Happy is that people whose God is the Lord; ⟨p. 398⟩but persecution cannot hinder us from having God for our God. Dan. 3.17. Our God is able to deliver us; though persecuted, yet they could say, Our God; therefore persecution cannot hinder us from being blessed.
2. They are blessed whom God loves, but persecution cannot hinder the love of God. Rom. 8.35. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall persecution? The Goldsmith loves his gold as well when it is in the fire, as when it is in his bag; God loves his children as well in adversity, as in prosperity. Rev. 3.19. As many as I love I rebuke; God visits his children in prison. Acts 23.11. Be of good cheer, Paul. God sweetens their sufferings. 2 Cor. 1.5. As the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth. As the mother having given her child a bitter pill, gives it afterwards a lump of sugar; persecution is a bitter pill, but God gives the comforts of his Spirit to sweeten it; if persecution cannot hinder Gods love, then it cannot hinder us from being blessed.
2. They are blessed whom God loves, but persecution cannot hinder the love of God. Rom. 8.35. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall persecution? The Goldsmith loves his gold as well when it is in the fire, as when it is in his bag; God loves his children as well in adversity, as in prosperity.