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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.
3. Hope is circa bonum arduum, it looks at some good which is difficult to attain. So hope differs from desire; desire is weak and transient, it is soon over; hope is resolute and fixed, it wrestles with difficulties, and will not give over, till it hath the thing hoped for.
3. Hope is circa bonum arduum, it looks at some good which is difficult to attain. So hope differs from desire; desire is weak and transient, it is soon over; hope is resolute and fixed, it wrastles with difficulties, and will not give over, till it hath the thing hoped for.
4. Hope is circa bonum possibile, it looks at some good which is feasible, and which there is possibility of obtaining. So hope differs from despair; despair looks on things with black spectacles, and gives all for lost; hope is like Cork to the Net, which keeps the heart from ⟨p. 577⟩sinking in despair. Thus you have seen what hope is.
Here a Question may be moved, how hope differs from Faith?