A96093:1941
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 pleasant way, 'tis sweetened with comfort. Prov. 3.17. All her ways are pleasantness. Rom. 15.13. Joy in believing. The way of Religion is strewed with Roses; oh the bunches of grapes that God cuts down, the flagons of wine that he gives to those that turn their feet into this way!
1. A pleasant way, 'tis sweetned with comfort. Prov. 3.17. All her wayes are pleasantness. Rom. 15.13. Joy in believing. The way of Religion is strowed with Roses; oh the bunches of grapes that God cuts down, the flagons of wine that he gives to those that turn their feet into this way!
2. The way of Gods Commandments is a clean way, 'tis a way paved with holiness, Isa. 35.6. Christians may run in this way, and never wet the sole of their feet; the way of sin is defiling; such as use themselves to this way, the filth of hell sticks upon them; in the ways of sin there are such deep sloughs, that men sink into perdition; but the way of the Christian race is clean; such as run this race, cleanse themselves from all pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness, 2 Cor. 7.1.
2. The way of Gods Commandments is a clean way, 'tis a way paved with holiness, Isa. 35.6. Christians may run in this way, and never wet the sole of their feet; the way of sin is defiling; such as use themselves to this way, the filth of hell sticks upon them; in the wayes of sin there are such deep sloughs, that men sink into perdition; but the way of the Christian race is clean; such as run this race, cleanse themselves from all pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness,