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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.
SECT. 7.
Use 4 Here is comfort to the people of God in case of poverty;1 God hath provided them a Kingdom. Theirs is the Kingdom of heaven: A child of God is oft so low in the world, that he hath not a foot of land to inherit; he is poor in purse, as well as poor in spirit; but here is a fountain of consolation opened; the poorest Saint who hath lost all his golden Fleece, is heir to a Kingdom; a Kingdom which excels all the Kingdoms and Principalities of the world, more than Pearl or Diamond doth excel brass; 'tis peerless and endless. The hope of a Kingdom, saith Basil, should carry a Christian with courage and cheerfulness through all his afflictions; and it is a saying of Luther, The sea of Gods mercy overflowing in spiritual blessings, should drown all the sufferings of this life. What though thou goest now in rags? thou shalt have thy white robes; What though thou art fed as Daniel with pulse, and hast courser fare? thou shalt feast it when thou comest into the Kingdom; ⟨p. 67⟩here thou drinkest the water of tears, but shortly thou shalt drink the wine of Paradise; be comforted with the thoughts of a Kingdom.
Use 4 HEre is comfort to the people of God in case of poverty;1 God hath provided them a Kingdom. Theirs is the Kingdom of heaven: A child of God is oft so low in the world, that he hath not a foot of land to inherit; he is poor in purse, as well as poor in spirit; but here is a fountain of consolation opened; the poorest Saint who hath lost all his golden Fleece, is heir to a Kingdom; a Kingdom which excels all the Kingdoms and Principalities of the world, more than Pearl or Diamond doth excel brass; 'tis pearless and endless. The hope of a Kingdom, saith Basil, should carry a Christian with courage and chearfulness through all his afflictions; and it is a saying of Luther, The sea of Gods mercy overflowing in spiritual blessings, should drown all the sufferings of this life. What though thou goest now in rags? thou shalt have thy white robes; What though thou art fed as Daniel with pulse, and hast courser fare? thou shalt feast it when thou comest into the Kingdom;