A96093:1950
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. In other races, he only gets the prize, that runs fastest; but it is not so in this heavenly race; though others may out-run us, yet if we hold on to the end of the race, we shall receive the reward. Some Saints are like Asael, light of foot as a Roe, 2 Sam. 2.18. They run swifter in the race of obedience, as Ahimaaz out-ran Cushi, 2 Sam. 18.23. But this is the comfort of weak believers, though they cannot run so fast as others, yet if they hold on to the end of the race without tiring, they are crowned; he that came in at the eleventh hour, had his pay as well as he that came in at the first hour, Matth. 20.9. To show that those who set out later, and may be out-run by other Christians, yet persevering, they are saved.
4. In other races, he only gets the prize, that runs fastest; but it is not so in this heavenly race; though others may out-run us, yet if we hold on to the end of the race, we shall receive the reward. Some Saints are like Asael, light of foot as a Roe, 2 Sam. 2.18. They run swifter in the race of obedience, as Ahimaaz out-ran Cushi, 2 Sam. 18.23. But this is the comfort of weak believers, though they cannot run so fast as others, yet if they hold on to the end of the race without tyring, they are crowned; he that came in at the eleventh houre, had his pay as well as he that came in at the first houre, Matth. 20.9. To shew that those who set out later, and may be out-run by other Christians, yet persevering, they are saved.
5. In other races men run for a temporal reward; in the Christian race we run for an eternal; others run for a corruptible Crown,