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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.
1. That inbred hatred which is naturally in mens hearts against Christ. Sinners are called [Greek or Hebrew], God-haters, Rom. 1.30. Sin begets not only a dislike of the ways of God, but hatred; and from disaffection flows disloyalty, Luke 19.14. His Citizens hated him, and sent a message ⟨p. 414⟩after him, saying, we will not have this man to reign over us.
1. That inbred hatred which is naturally in mens hearts against Christ. Sinners are called 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, God-haters, Rom. 1.30. Sin begets not only a dislike of the wayes of God, but hatred; and from disaffection flows disloyalty, Luke 19.14. His Citizens hated him, and sent a message ⟨p. 414⟩after him, saying, we will not have this man to reign over us.
2. Besides this inbred hatred against Christ, the Devil labours to blow the coals, and increase this odium and antipathy. He raiseth an evil report upon Religion, as those Spies did on Canaan, Numb. 13.32. They brought up an evil report of the Land. Satan is implacably malicious; and as he sometimes accuseth us to God, so he accuseth God to us, and saith, he is an hard Master, and his commandments are grievous; 'tis the Devils design to do as the sons of Eli, who made the offering of God to be abhorred,