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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.
Divine commands are not grievous, if we consider them first positively, in these eight particulars.1
- 11. Positively.
1. A Christian consents to Gods commands, therefore §1they are not grievous Rom. 7.16. I• consent to the Law that it is good. What is done with consent, is easy; if the Virgin give her consent, the Match goes on cheerfully. A godly man in his judgement approves of Christs Laws*, and in his will consents to them, therefore they are not grievous; a wicked man is under a force, terror of conscience hales him to duty; he is like a slave that is chained to the Galley, he must work whether he will or no, he is forced to pull the Rope, tug at the Oar; but a godly man is like a free subject, that consents to his Princes Laws, and obeys out of choice, as seeing the equity and rationality of them. Thus a gracious heart sees that beauty and equity in the commands of heaven, as draws forth consent, and this consent makes them that they are not grievous.
1. A Christian consents to Gods commands, therefore §1they are not grievous Rom. 7.16. I• consent to the Law that it is good. What is done with consent, is easie; if the Virgin give her consent, the Match goes on chearfully. A godly man in his judgement approves of Christs Laws*