A96093:1409
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.
Doctr. Hence observe, Doctr. That none of Gods commands are grievous; when he calls us to be meek, merciful, pure in heart, these Commandments are not grievous. Matth. 11.30. My burden is light; the Greek word there for burden, [Greek or Hebrew], signifies properly the ballast of a ship, which glides through the waves so swiftly and easily, as if the ship had no weight or pressure in it. Christs Commandments are like the ballast of a ship, useful, but not troublesome, all his precepts are sweet and facile; therefore called pleasantness, Prov. 3.17. To illustrate and amplify this, consider two things.
Doctr. Hence observe, Doctr. That none of Gods commands are grievous; when he calls us to be meek, merciful, pure in heart, these Commandments are not grievous. Matth. 11.30. My burden is light; the Greek word there for burden, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, signifies properly the ballast of a ship, which glides through the waves so swiftly and easily, as if the ship had no weight or pressure in it. Christs Commandments are like the ballast of a ship, useful, but not troublesome, all his precepts are sweet and facil; therefore called pleasantness, Prov. 3.17. To illustrate and amplifie this, consider two things.
1. Why Christ lays commands upon his people. 2. That these commands are not grievous.
1. Why Christ layes commands upon his people. 2. That these commands are not grievous.