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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. Take heed of those things which will hinder you in your race. As 1. Shake off sloth▪ idleness is pulvinar Diaboli; the sluggish Christian will never win the race, he is asleeping when he should be running; sloth is the rust of the soul, 'tis the disease of the soul; a sick man cannot run a race. Prov. 12.27. The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting; he will rather fast than hunt for Venison; oh shake off sloth, abandon this idle Devil if ye intend a race.
1. Take heed of those things which will hinder you in your race. As 1. Shake off sloth▪ idleness is pulvinar Diaboli; the sluggish Christian will never win the race, he is asleeping when he should be running; sloth is the rust of the soul, 'tis the disease of the soul; a sick man cannot run a race. Prov. 12.27. The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting; he will rather fast than hunt for Venison; oh shake off sloth, abandon this idle Div•l if ye intend a race.
2. Throw off all weights. There are two sorts of weights we must throw off.
1. The weight of sin; Heb. 12.1. Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us, and let us run the race. The Prophet David felt this weight;