A96093:1636
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.
Secondly, The Affection of grief; a man grieves for the want of an estate, but not for the want of Gods favour: he grieves to see the Plague or Cancer in his body, but not for the plague of his heart.
Thirdly, the Affection of joy; many can rejoice in a wedge of gold, not in the cross of Christ. The Affections are sick and distempered.
Thirdly, the Affection of joy; many can rejoyce in a wedge of gold, not in the crosse of Christ. The Affections are sick and distempered.
5. The Conscience is diseased. Titus 1.15. Their mind and conscience is defiled. Conscience is either, 1. Erroneous, binding to that which is sinful, John 16.2. Acts 26.9. I verily thought with my self I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus. Conscience is an ignis fatuus leading out of the right way. Or, 2. Dumb, it will not tell men of sin; it is a silenced Preacher. Or, 3. Dead, Ephes. 4.19. Conscience is stupefied and senseless; the custom of sinning hath taken away the sense of sinning. Thus the sickness of sin hath gone over the whole soul, like that cloud which over-spread the face of the heavens, 1 Kings 18.45.