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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.
4 Keep thy heart in time of adversity; the Devil makes use of all winds to toss the soul, and make it suffer shipwreck. Adversity hath its tentations; not more ships than souls have been cast away in a storm; in adversity the Devil tempts to Atheism and Desperation. Job 2.9. Dost thou still retain thy integrity? Satan used Jobs wife as a Ladder, by which he would have scaled the impregnable Tower of Jobs faith: Still retain thy integrity? a cutting kind of speech; as if the Devil had said, God hath pulled down thy hedge, he hath smitten thee in thy children, and art thou so senseless as still to serve and worship God? what hast thou got by his service? where are thy earnings? what hast thou to show but thy Boils? Throw off Religion, Curse God, and dye! Satan's physic always poisons. Mal. 3.14 Ye have said It is vain to serve God; and What profit is it that we have kept his Ordinance? We have mourned and fasted, and have almost fasted away all we have, we will fast no longer. When a mans estate is low, and his spirit troubled, now Satan begins to throw in his Angle; and oftentimes Satan makes use of poverty, to put a man upon indirect courses. Agur feared his heart in poverty, Prov. 30.8, 9. Oh keep thy heart in adversity, beware of taking the forbidden fruit.
4 Keep thy heart in time of adversity; the Divel makes use of all winds to toss the soul, and make it suffer shipwrack. Adversity hath its tentations; not more ships than souls have been cast away in a storm; in adversity the Divel tempts to Atheisme and Desperation. Job 2.9. Dost thou still retain thy integrity? Satan used Jobs wife as a Ladder, by which he would have scaled the impregnable Tower of Jobs faith: Still retain thy integrity? a cutting kind of speech; as if the Divel had said, God hath pull'd down thy hedge, he hath smitten thee in thy children, and art thou so sensless as still to serve and worship God? what hast thou got by his service? where are thy earnings? what hast thou to shew but thy Boiles? Throw off Religion, Curse God, and dye! Satans physick alwayes poysons. Mal. 3.14 Ye have said It is vain to serve God; and What profit is it that we have kept his Ordinance? We have mourn'd and fasted, and have almost fasted away all we have, we will fast no longer. When a mans estate is low, and his spirit troubled, now Satan begins to throw in his Angle; and oftentimes Satan makes use of poverty, to put a man upon indirect courses. Agur fear'd his heart in poverty,