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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.
2. They are Christs commands, therefore not grievous. Take my yoke, Matth. 11.29. Gospel commands are not the Laws of a Tyrant, but a Saviour. The husbands commands are not grievous to the wife, it is her ambition to obey; this is enough to animate and excite obedience, Christ commands. As Peter said in another sense, Matth. 14.28. Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee upon the water. So saith a gracious soul, Lord; if it be thou that wouldest have me mourn for sin, and breath after heart-purity; if it be thou (dear Saviour) that biddest me do these things, I will cheerfully obey. Thy commandments are not grievous. A soldier at the word of his General makes a brave onset.
2. They are Christs comands, therefore not grievous. Take my yoak, Matth. 11.29. Gospel commands are not the Laws of a Tyrant, but a Saviour. The husbands commands are not grievous to the wife, it is her ambition to obey; this is enough to animate and excite obedience, Christ commands. As Peter said in another sence, Matth. 14.28. Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee upon the water. So saith a gracious soul, Lord; if it be thou that wouldest have me mourn for sin, and breath after heart-purity; if it be thou (dear Saviour) that biddest me do these things, I will chearfully obey. Thy commandments are not grievous. A souldier at the word of his General makes a brave onset.
3. Christians obey out of a principle of love, and then Gods commandments are not grievous. Therefore in Scripture serving, and loving of God are put together, Isa. 56.6. The sons of the strangers that join themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the Name of the Lord, &c. Nothing is grievous to him that loves; love lightens a burden; it adds wings to obedience; an heart that loves God counts nothing tedious, but its own dullness and slowness of motion; love makes sin heavy, and Christs burden light.