A96093:2049
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.
Use 4 1. Be exhorted to cheerfulness: Rom. 5.2. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 1Timor contristatur animum; Branch. 1 fear begets sorrow, hope begets joy. Spes non potest esse sine gaudio; Divine hope (saith Austin) cannot be without some mixture of joy; hath a Christian hopes of heaven, and not rejoice? Prov. 10.28. The hope of the righteous shall be gladness.
Use 4 1. Be exhorted to chearfulness: Rom. 5.2. We rejoyce in hope of the glory of God. 1Timor• contristatur animum; Branch. 1 fear begets sorrow, hope begets joy. Spes non potest esse sine gaudio; Divine hope (saith Austin) cannot be without some mixture of joy; hath a Christian hopes of heaven, and not rejoyce? Prov. 10.28. The hope of the righteous shall be gladness.
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Object. Object. But may some say, It is long before we shall enter upon possession of heaven, and hope deferred makes the heart sick, Prov. 13.12.