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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.
*2. The Spider spins the web out of her own bowels; she fetcheth all from her self. The Bee fetcheth all from without; the matter of her Comb and Honey the sucks from the flower: The Spider fetcheth all from within her self. A true Christian like the Bee fetcheth all from without, he sucks from the sweet flower of Christs Righteousness; Isa. 45.24. In the Lord have I righteousness and strength: But a wicked man like the Spider fetcheth all his hope from within; •he spins the thread of his hope out of himself, his duties and moralities; thus his hope is like the Spiders Web.
- *Eurip.
3. The Spiders Web is but weak, the least blast shakes it, the least touch breaks it. Such is the sinners hope, the least terror of Conscience shakes it: Job 8.14. whose hope shall be cut off: commonly before a wicked mans life is cut off, his hope is cut off. The godly man hope is a good hope, it is solid and scriptural, the other is a spiders Web.
4. A true hope is a Persevering hope: Heb. 3.6. Whose house are we if we hold fast the confidence of hope firm unto the end. True hope doth not faint, it is not broken with affliction, it is an Adamantine grace, [Greek or Hebrew]. Hope makes us endure; therefore it is compared to an Anchor which holds the ship in a storm; and to an Helmet,