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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.
The censuring world objects against Religion that it is difficult and irksome. Mal. 1.13. Behold what a weariness is it! therefore the Lord that he may invite and encourage us to obedience, draws Religion in its fair colours, and represents it to us as beautiful and pleasant, in these words, His Commandments are not grievous: This may well be called a sweetening ingredient into Religion, ⟨p. 403⟩and may serve to take off that asperity and harshness which the carnal world would put upon the ways of God.
The censuring world objects against Religion that it is difficult and irksome. Mal. 1.13. Behold what a weariness is it! therefore the Lord that he may invite and encourage us to obedience, draws Religion in its fair colours, and represents it to us as beautiful and pleasant, in these words, His Commandments are not grievous: This may well be called a sweetning ingredient into Religion, ⟨p. 403⟩and may serve to take off that asperity and harshness which the carnal world would put upon the wayes of God.
For the clearing of the terms, let us consider:
1. What is meant here by Commandments?