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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. Let us consider Christs commands comparatively,1 and we shall see they are not grievous; let us make a four-fold comparison. Compare Gospel-commands.
- 12. Comparatively.
1. With the severity of the Moral Law. 2. With the Commands of sin. 3. With the torments of the damned. 4. With the glory of heaven.
1. Christs commands in the Gospel are not grievous, Compari. 1 compared with the severity of the Moral Law. The Moral Law was such a burden, as neither we nor our fathers could bear, Gal. 3.10. Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the Law to do them. Impossible it is, that any Christian should come up to the strictness of this. The golden Mandates of the Gospel comparatively are easy. For,
1. Christs commands in the Gospel are not grievous, Compari. 1 compared with the severity of the Moral Law. The Moral Law was such a burden, as neither we nor our fathers could bear, Gal. 3.10. Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the Law to do them. Impossible it is, that any Christian should come up to the strictnesse of this. The golden Mandates of the Gospel comparatively are easie. For,