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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.
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, 1 Thes. 5.8. The Helmet keeps off the blow of the sword, or arrow from entering: So hope as an helmet keeps off the stroke from a Christian that it shall not hurt or dismay him. In time of public calamities, hope keeps the soul from sinking; Joel 3.16. The Lord shall roar out of Sihon; the heavens and earth shall shake, but the Lord will be the hope of his people. Though heaven and earth be ready to come together, yet a Believers hope abides. — Sola spes in miseriis consolatur.* A Believer doth never cast away his Anchor. The Jews were prisoners in Babylon, yet prisoners of hope: Zach. 9.10. Turn to your strong hold, ye prisoners of hope. When a Christian is on his death-bed, and all hope of life is taken away, yet his hope in God is not taken away.
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, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Hope makes us endure; therefore it is compared to an Anchor which holds the ship in a storm; and to an Helmet, 1 Thes. 5.8. The Helmet keeps off the blow of the sword, or arrow from entring: So hope as an helmet keeps off the stroke from a Christian that it shall not hurt or dismay him. In time of publick calamities, hope keeps the soul from sinking;