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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
Appendix › The trees of Righteousness blossoming, and bringing forth fruit.
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. Creatures by the instinct of Nature observe their season: Jer. 8.7. Yea the Stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times, and the Turtle, &c. Pliny saith they observe the season of changing their climate; and shall not Christians observe their seasons, when to mourn, when to rejoice? let not the Stork, and Turtle outwit them.
2. Creatures by the instinct of Nature observe their season: Jer. 8.7. Yea the Stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times, and the Turtle, &c. Pliny saith they observe the season of changing their climate; and shall not Christians observe their seasons, when to mourn, when to rejoyce? let not the Stork, and Turtle outwit them.
3. Duties of Religion not well timed are dangerous; a strong purgation may sometimes be good; but to give it out of season, when nature is spent, and between fainting fits, it may kill the patient. Snow and Hail are good for the ground, when they come in their season, but when the Corn is ripe, now a storm of Hail would do hurt, and be like a Flail to thrash the Co•n out of the Ear. Mourning in a time of joy, private duties in time of public, is as unseasonable as Snow and Hail in Harvest, and will prove no less prejudicial.
3. Duties of Religion not well timed are dangerous; a strong purgation may sometimes be good; but to give it out of season, when nature is spent, and between fainting fits, it may kill the patient. Snow and Hail are good for the ground, when they come in their season, but when the Corn is ripe, now a storm of Hail would do hurt, and be like a Flail to thrash the Co•n out of the Ear. Mourning in a time of joy, private duties in time of publick, is as unseasonable as Snow and Hail in Harvest, and will prove no lesse prejudicial.