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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.
4. Take heed that company doth not stay you by the way; if a man should be running a race, and he should have a friend as he is running, come and take him by the hand and desire to speak with him, this might make him lose the race. So stands the case here, many will be ready to meet with us, and stop us in our race to heaven; what need you (will they say) set out so soon? what need you run so fast? stay and bathe your selves a while in the luscious delights of the world; thus have many been stopped in the middle of their race, and lost the prize; to him that would hinder us in our race, we must say with an holy indignation, as Christ, Get thee behind me Satan, Matth. 4.10.
4. Take heed that company doth not stay you by the way; if a man should be running a race, and he should have a friend as he is running, come and take him by the hand and desire to speak with him, this might make him lose the race. So stands the case here, many will be ready to meet with us, and stop us in our race to heaven; what need you (will they say) set out so soon? what need you run so fast? stay and bathe your selves a while in the luscious delights of the world; thus have many been stop'd in the middle of their race, and lost the prize; to him that would hinder us in our race, we must say with an holy indignation, as Christ, Get thee behind me Satan, Matth. 4.10.
2. You must use all means to help you in the heavenly Race; as
1. Run the right race, the Apostle calls it [Greek or Hebrew], the race set before us,