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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.
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⟩for the iron to move: if the Spirit of God as a Divine Lodestone draw and move the heart, now, it is not hard to obey. When the birds hath wings given it, it can fly. Though the soul of it self be unable to do that which is good, yet having two wings given it, (like that woman in the Revelation)* the wing of faith, and the wing of the Spirit, now it flies swiftly in obedience, Ezek. 11.1. the Spirit did lift me up. The heart is heavenly in prayer, when the Spirit lifts it up. The sails of a Mill cannot move of themselves, but when the wind blows, then they turn round; when a gale of the Spirit blows upon the soul. Now the sails of the affections move swiftly in duty.
4. A Christian is carried on auxilio Spiritus, by the help of the Spirit; and the Spirit makes every duty easie, Rom. 8.26. The Spirit helpeth our infirmities. The Spirit works in us the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, & 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, 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 easie; 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 childs hand, and helps it to frame its letters; now, it is not hard for the childe to write. If the Loadstone draw the iron, it is not hard