A96093:1970
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. 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; Psal. 38.4. Mine iniquities are gone over mine head as an heavy burden, they are too heavy for me. If we do not throw off this weight by repentance, it will sink us into hell: A man cannot run a race with a burden upon his back; an unclean person cannot run the race of holiness; a proud man cannot run the race of humility; a self-willed man cannot run the race of obedience. O Christian, unburden thy soul of sin, through off this weight if thou intendest to lay hold on the Crown.
2. The second weight the Spiritual Racer must throw off, is the world. This is a golden weight which hath hindered many, and made them lose their race. So far as the world is a weight, throw it off; I say not lay ⟨p. 569⟩aside the use of the world, but the love of it.* When the golden dust of the world is blown in mens eyes, it blinds them that they cannot see their race.
2. The second weight the Spiritual Racer must throw off, is the world. This is a golden weight which hath hindred many, and made them lose their race. So far as the world is a weight, throw it off; I say not lay