A96093:1633
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.
3. The Will is diseased; the will is the souls commander in chief, it is the master-wheel; but how irregular and eccentric is it! The Will in the Creation was like that golden bridle which Minerva was said to put upon Pegasus to guide and rule him; it did answer to Gods Will; This was the language of the Will in innocency, I delight to do thy will O God, Psal. 40.8. but now it is distempered, it is like an iron sinew that refuseth to yield and bend to God, Isa. 48.4. John 5.40. ye will not come to me that you may have life. Men will rather die than come to their Physician. The Arminians talk of Free-will; the Will is sick; what freedom hath a sick man to walk? the Will is a Rebel against God, Acts 7.51. ye ⟨p. 472⟩do always resist the holy Ghost. The Will is diseased.
3. The Will is diseased; the will is the souls commander in chief, it is the master-wheele; but how irregular and excentrick is it! The Will in the Creation was like that golden bridle which Minerva was said to put upon Pegasus to guide and rule him; it did answer to Gods Will; This was the language of the Will in innocency, I delight to do thy will O God, Psal. 40.8. but now it is distempered, it is like an iron sinew that refuseth to yeild and bend to God, Isa. 48.4. John 5.40. ye will not come to me that you may have life. Men will rather die than come to their Physician. The Arminians talk of Free-will; the Will is sick; what freedome hath a sick man to walk? the Will is a Rebel against God, Acts 7.51. ye ⟨p. 472⟩