A96093:2006
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. The Object, that blessed hope; where we are to consider, 1. What hope is. 2. What a Christian hopes for.
1. What hope is. I answer: Hope is a Theological grace planted in the heart by the Spirit of God, whereby a Christian is quickened to the expectation of those things which are held forth in the promise: Rom. 8.25. If we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. Aquinas describes hope thus; Spes est circa bonum arduum, futurum, & possibile.
1. What hope is. I answer: Hope is a Theological grace planted in the heart by the Spirit of God, whereby a Christian is quickned to the expectation of those things which are held forth in the promise: Rom. 8.25. If we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. Aquinas descibes hope thus; Spes est circa bonum arduum, futurum, & possibile.
1. Hope is circa bonum, it looks at some good, so it differs from fear; fear looks at evil, hope at good.