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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.
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.
1. The Word of God: Psal. 130.5. In his word do I hope. The Word saith, Let the sinner forsake his way; and the Lord will abundantly pardon: The Word saith, Hereby we know that Christ abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us, 1 Joh. 3.8. Now a child of God finding these qualifications wrought in him, he builds his hope for heaven upon them; In his Word do I hope.
2. The hope of a godly man is built upon experiences: Rom. 5.4. Experience worketh hope. A Believer can bring in a Catalogue of experiences; Psal. 119.65. Thou hast dealt well with thy servant. So can a Believer say, God hath dealt well with him: In several cases he hath had experiences of God; when his sins and tentations have been strong, God hath come in with Auxiliary Forces, and his grace hath been sufficient. When his heart hath been sinking under fears, God hath buoyed him up out of quicksands, and lifted up his head out of deep waters: Psal. 3.3. Thou art O Lord my glory, and the lifter up of my head. When his heart hath been dead in duty, the Spirit of God hath been sweetly tuning of his soul, and now he makes melody in his heart to the Lord,