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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.
CHAP. VI.
MATTH. 5.4. Blessed are they that mourn.
M [Greek or Hebrew]. Here are eight steps leading to true blessedness; they may be compared to Jacobs Ladder, the top whereof reached to heaven; we have already gone over one step, and now let us proceed to the second. Beati Lugentes, Blessed are they that Mourn. We must go through the valley of tears to Paradise. Mourning were a sad and unpleasant subject to treat on, were it not that it hath blessedness going before, and comfort coming after: Mourning is put here for Repentance; it implies both sorrow, which is the Cloud; and tears, which are the Rain distilling in this golden shower, God comes down to us. The words fall into two parts. 1. An Assertion, that Mourners are blessed persons. 2. A Reason, because they shall be comforted. I begin with the first, the Assertion, Mourners are blessed persons. Luke 6.21. Blessed are ye that weep now. Though the Saints tears are bitter tears, yet they are blessed tears.
M 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Here are eight steps leading to true blessedness; they may be compared to Jacobs Ladder, the top whereof reached to heaven; we have already gone over one step, and now let us proceed to the second. Beati Lugentes, Blessed are they that Mourn. We must go through the valley of tears to Paradise. Mourning were a sad and unpleasant subject to treat on, were it not that it hath blessedness going before, and comfort coming after: Mourning is put here for Repentance; it implies both sorrow, which is the Cloud; and tears, which are the Rain distilling in this golden showre, God comes down to us. The words fall into two parts. 1. An Assertion, that Mourners are blessed persons. 2. A Reason, because they shall be comforted. I begin with the first, the Assertion, Mourners are blessed persons.