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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. Sin doth corrupt the understanding Gregory Nazianzene calls the understanding the lamp of reason,1 this lamp burns dim, Ephes. 4.18. Having their understanding darkened; Sin hath drawn a veil over the understanding, it hath cast a mist before our eyes, that we neither know God nor our selves; naturally we are only wise to do ⟨p. 471⟩evil, Jer. 4.21. Witty at sin, wise to damn our selves; the understanding is defiled, 1 Cor. 2.14. We can no more judge of spiritual objects till the Spirit of God anoint our eyes, than a blind man can judge of colours; our understandings are subject to mistakes; we call evil good, and good evil; we put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter, Isa. 5.20. A strait stick under water seems crooked; so to a natural understanding the strait line of truth seems crooked.
1. Sin doth corrupt the understanding Gregory Nazianzene calls the understanding the lamp of reason,1 this lamp burns dim, Ephes. 4.18. Having their understanding darkned; Sin hath drawn a vail over the understanding, it hath cast a mist before our eyes, that we neither know God nor our selves; naturally we are only wise to do ⟨p. 471⟩evil, Jer. 4.21. Witty at sin, wise to damn our selves; the understanding is defiled, 1 Cor. 2.14. We can no more judge of spiritual objects till the Spirit of God anoint our eyes, than a blind man can judge of colours; our understandings are subject to mistakes; we call evill good, and good evil; we put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter,