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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.
Nay, to a child of God, so far as corruption prevails, (for he is but in part regenerate) Christs Laws seem irksome; the flesh cries out, it cannot pray or suffer; the Law in the members rebels against Christs Law; only the spiritual part prevails, and makes the flesh stoop to Christs injunctions. A regenerate person, so far as he is regenerate, doth not count Gods Commandments grievous, they are not a burden, but a delight.
Nay, to a childe of God, so far as corruption prevails, (for he is but in part regenerate) Christs Laws seem irksome; the flesh cries out, it cannot pray or suffer; the Law in the members rebels against Christs Law; only the spiritual part prevails, and makes the flesh stoop to Christs injunctions. A regenerate person, so far as he is regenerate, doth not count Gods Commandments grievous, they are not a burden, but a delight.
Divine commands are not grievous, if we consider them first positively, in these eight particulars.1
- 11. Positively.