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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.
1. A man that is asleep, his senses are tied up*; so a sinner whose heart is asleep in sin, his spiritual senses are taken away, he is not sensible of sin or wrath, Eph. 4.19. He is going to hell, but knows it not, he laughs in his sleep.
1. A man that is asleep, his senses are tyed up*; so a sinner whose heart is asleep in sin, his spiritual senses are taken away, he is not sensible of sin or wrath, Eph. 4.19. He is going to hell, but knows it not, he laughs in his sleep.
- *Somnus est ligatio sensuum.
2. Though in sleep the senses are bound, yet the fancy is let loose, the man dreams he is at a Banquet, Isa. 29.8, So when the heart of a sinner is asleep in sin, yet his fancy is quick; he fancies that he is an heir of the promise, that God loves him, fancy is let loose.
3. Sleep hinders from action; he that is asleep, cannot work; so a sinner fallen asleep in sin, cannot work out his salvation.