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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.
2. Grace perfumes our duties. Psal. 141.2. Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense. Noah's sacrifice was a perfume, Gen. 8.21. The Lord smelled a sweet savour. The sighs of a wicked man are an unsavoury breath, his solemn sacrifice is dung, Mal. 2.3. There is such a noisome stench comes from a sinners duties, that God will not come near. Amos 5.21. I will not smell in your solemn Assemblies. Who can endure the smell of a dead Corps? but grace gives a fragrancy and redolency to our holy things. Heb. 11.4. By faith Abel offered a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, God testifying of his gifts. Abel's sacrifice was better scented, God smelled a sweet savour of it; for he testified of his gifts. If it be asked what this testimony was God gave of Abel's sacrifice? Hierom saith, Deus inflammavit, God set his sacrifice on fire*; so from heaven testifying his acceptance of Abel's offering; and if grace doth so perfume you, wear this flower, not in your bosoms, but your hearts.
2. Grace perfumes our duties. Psal. 141.2. Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense. Noahs sacrifice was a perfume, Gen. 8.21. The Lord smell'd a sweet savour. The sighs of a wicked man are an unsavoury breath, his solemn sacrifice is dung, Mal. 2.3. There is such a noisom stench comes from a sinners duties, that God will not come near. Amos 5.21. I will not smell in your solemn Assemblies. Who can endure the smell of a dead Corps? but grace gives a fragrancy and redolency to our holy things.