A96093:1944
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.
3. A race is short; breve curriculum, as Horace calls it; the Greek word for a race, [Greek or Hebrew], signifies a short stage of ground; the Olympian race contained six hundred feet, 'twas one hundred twenty paces long as Authors report. A race is but a short space of ground, it is soon run: Thus our time being short, our race cannot be long; and this may encourage us in the race of Religion, and keep us from being out of breath; remember it is but a short race. 1 Pet. 5.10. After the have suffered awhile. So I may say, after the have run awhile, you will be at the end of the stage; it is but awhile (Christians) and you shall have done wrestling, weeping, praying, and you shall reap the fruit of all your prayers; it is but awhile, and you shall have done suffering, and be among the spirits of just men made perfect; it is but awhile, and you shall be at the end of your race. 1 Pet. 1.9. Receiving the end of your faith, &c. How should a child of God rejoice to think he hath got over a good part of his race, and is almost at the end; as Doctor Taylor Martyr once said, I have but two stiles to go over, and then I shall be at my Fathers house. You that have set out betimes for heaven, & now are in your old ⟨p. 559⟩age, comfort your selves with this, you have but a few steps more to take, and then you are at the end of your race.
3. A race is short; breve curriculum, as Horace calls it; the Greek word for a race, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, signifies a short stage of ground; the Olympian race contained six hundred feet, 'twas one hundred twenty paces long as Authors report. A race is but a short space of ground, it is soon run: Thus our time being short, our race cannot be long; and this may encourage us in the race of Religion, and keep us from being out of breath; remember it is but a short race. 1 Pet. 5.10. After ye have suffered awhile. So I may say, after ye have run awhile, you will be at the end of the stage; it is but awhile (Christians) and you shall have done wrestling, weeping, praying, and you shall reap the fruit of all your prayers; it is but awhile, and you shall have done suffering, and be among the spirits of just men made perfect; it is but awhile, and you shall be at the end of your race.