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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.
Compari. 3 3. Christs commands are not grievous, compared with the grievous torments of the damned. The rich man cries out, I am tormented in this flame, Luke 16.24. Hell-fire is so unconceivably torturing, that the wicked know not either how to bear, or to avoid it. The torment of the damned may be compared to a yoke, and it differs from other yokes; usually the yoke is laid but upon the neck of the beast; but the hell-yoke is laid upon every part of the sinner; his eyes shall behold nothing but bloody Tragedies, his ears shall hear the groans and shrieks of blaspheming spirits. He shall suffer in every member of his body and faculty of his soul; and this agony, though violent, yet perpetual; The yoke of the damned shall never be taken off. — Vestiga nulla retrorsum — Sinners might break the golden chain of Gods commands, but they cannot break the iron chain of his punishments*. 'Tis as impossible for them to file this chain, as to scale heaven.
Compari. 3 3. Christs commands are not grievous, compared with the grievous torments of the damned. The rich man cries out, I am tormented in this flame, Luke 16.24. Hell-fire is so unconceivably torturing, that the wicked know not either how to bear, or to avoid it. The torment of the damned may be compared to a yoak, and it differs from other yoaks; usually the yoak is laid but upon the neck of the beast; but the hell-yoak is laid upon every part of the sinner; his eyes shall behold nothing but bloody Tragedies, his ears shall hear the groans and schreeks of blaspheming spirits. He shall suffer in every member of his body and faculty of his soul; and this agony, though violent, yet perpetual; The yoak of the damned shall never be taken off. — Vestiga nulla retrorsum — Sinners might break the golden chain of Gods commands, but they cannot break the iron chain of his punishments*. 'Tis as impossible for them to file this chaine, as to scale heaven.
- *Vincula insoluta manent. Bern.