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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.
Answ. Answ. Every grieving the Spirit of God is not that fatal sin. We grieve the Spirit when we sin against the illumination of it; the Spirit being grieved, may depart for a time, and carry away all its honey out of the Hive, leaving the soul in darkness, Isa. 50.10. But every grieving the Spirit is not the sin against the Holy Ghost. A child of God when he hath sinned, his heart smites him: and he whose heart smites him for sin, hath not committed the unpardonable sin. A child of God having grieved the Spirit, doth as Noah, when the Dove did fly out of the Ark, he opened the windows of the Ark to let it in ⟨p. 505⟩again. A godly man doth not shut his heart against the Spirit, as a wicked man doth, Acts 7.51. The Spirit of God would come in, he keeps him out; but a gracious soul opens his heart to let in the Spirit, as Noah opened the door of the Ark to let in the Dove*. Christian, is it not so with thee? then be of good comfort, thou hast not sinned the sin against the Holy Ghost; that sin is a malicious despiting the Spirit*, which thou tremblest to think of.
Answ. Answ. Every grieving the Spirit of God is not that fatal sin. We grieve the Spirit when we sin against the illumination of it; the Spirit being grieved, may depart for a time, and carry away all its honey out of the Hive, leaving the soul in darkness, Isa. 50.10. But every grieving the Spirit is not the sin against the Holy Ghost. A childe of God when he hath sinned, his heart smites him: and he whose heart smites him for sin, hath not commited the unpardonable sin. A childe of God having grieved the Spirit, doth as Noah, when the Dove did flie out of the Ark, he opened the windows of the Ark to let it in ⟨p. 505⟩again. A godly man doth not shut his heart against the Spirit, as a wicked man doth,