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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.
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.
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 joyne 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 dulnesse and slownesse of motion; love makes sin heavie, and Christs burden light.
4. A Christian is carried on auxilio Spiritus, by the help of the Spirit; and the Spirit makes every duty easy, Rom. 8.26. The Spirit helpeth our infirmities. The Spirit works in us the [Greek or Hebrew], & [Greek or Hebrew], both to will, and to do, Phil. 2. When God enables to do what he commands, then, his commandments are not grievous; if two carry a burden it is easy; the Spirit of God helps us to do duties, to bear burdens, it draws as it were in the yoke with us; If the Scrivener guides the child's hand, and helps it to frame its letters; now, it is not hard for the child to write. If the Lodestone draw the iron, it is not hard ⟨p. 407⟩