A96093:1421
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.
5. All Christs commands are beneficial, therefore not §5grievous, Deut. 10.12, 13. And now O Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to love him, to keep his Statutes which I command thee this day for thy good. Christs commands carries meat in the mouth of them, and then surely they are not grievous, salvation runs along in every precept. To obey Christs Laws, is not so much of duty, as our privilege; all Christs commands centre in blessedness. Physic is in it self very unpleasant, yet because it tends to health, no man refuseth it; Divine Precepts are to the fleshy part irksome, yet, having such excellent operation as to make us both holy, and happy, they are not to be accounted grievous; the apprentice is content to go through hard service, because it makes way for his freedom; The Scholar willingly wrestles with the knotty difficulties of Arts and Sciences, because they serve both to ennoble and advance him. How cheerfully doth a believer obey those Laws which reveal Christs love! That suffering is not grievous which leads to a Crown. This made Saint Paul say, I take pleasure in infirmities, in persecutions, 2. Cor. 12.10.
5. All Christs commands are beneficial, therefore not §5grievous, Deut. 10.12, 13. And now O Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to feare the Lord thy God, to love him, to keep his Statutes which I command thee this day for thy good. Christs commands carries meat in the mouth of them, and then surely they are not grievous, salvation runs along in every precept. To obey Christs Laws, is not so much of duty, as our privilege; all Christs commands centre in blessednesse. Physick is in it self very unpleasant, yet because it tends to health, no man refuseth it; Divine Precepts are to the fleshy part irksome, yet, having such excellent operation as to make us both holy, and happy, they are not to be accounted grievous; the apprentise is content to go through hard service, because it makes way for his freedome; The Scholar willingly wrastles with the knotty difficulties of Arts and Sciences, because they serve both to enoble and advance him. How chearfully doth a believer obey those Laws which reveal Christs love! That suffering is not grievous which leads to a Crown. This made Saint Paul say, I take pleasure in infirmities, in persecutions,