A96093:1957
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.
2. There's no other way to get to heaven but by running the race; by nature we are far distant from the goal, and if we would have heaven we must run for it; a man can no more get to heaven that doth not run this race, than one can get to his journeys end, that never sets a step in the way. 2 Pet. 1.10. Give diligence to make your calling and election sure, for so an entrance shall be ministered to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom.
2. There's no other way to get to heaven but by running the race; by nature we are far distant from the gole, and if we would have heaven we must run for it; a man can no more get to heaven that doth not run this race, than one can get to his journeys end, that never sets a step in the way. 2 Pet. 1.10. Give diligence to make your calling and election sure, for so an entrance shall be ministred to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom.
3. Our time allotted to us is short; Job compares our life to a swift Post: Job 9.25. My days are swifter than a Post. The Poets painted Time with wings; if Time flies, we had need run; the night of death hastens, and there is no running a race in the night.
3. Our time alotted to us is short; Job compares our life to a swift Post: Job 9.25. My dayes are swifter than a Post. The Poets painted Time with wings; if Time flies, we had need run; the night of death hastens, and there is no running a race in the night.