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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. A true hope is a good hope; 2 Thes. 2.16. [Greek or Hebrew], Who hath given us good hope through grace. A wicked mans hope is as far from being good as his heart; the Hebrew word for hope [Greek or Hebrew] signifies both confidence and folly, it is fitly applied to a wicked mans hope, his confidence is folly; the hope of a godly man is compared to an Anchor, Hebr. 6.19. the hope of a wicked ⟨p. 585⟩man to a Spiders Web, Job 8.14. And the sinners hope is fitly resembled to a Spiders Web three ways.
3. A true hope is a good hope; 2 Thes. 2.16. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Who hath given us good hope through grace. A wicked mans hope is as far from being good as his heart; the Hebrew word for hope 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 signifies both confidence and folly, it is fitly applyed to a wicked mans hope, his confidence is folly; the hope of a godly man is compared to an Anchor, Hebr. 6.19. the hope of a wicked ⟨p. 585⟩man to a Spiders Web, Job 8.14. And the sinners hope is fitly resembled to a Spiders Web three wayes.
1. The Spiders Web hath no foundation; such is the hope of the wicked; it is a pleasing thing, but it hath nothing to rest upon: A godly mans hope is built upon a double Basis.