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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.
1. Cherishing any secret lust in the heart; sin lived in, is like Vermin to the tree, which destroys the fruit; grace cannot thrive in a sinful heart: In some soil plants will not grow; the cherishing of sin is the withering of the Fruit.
1. Cherishing any secret lust in the heart; sin lived in, is like Vermin to the tree, which destroyes the fruit; grace cannot thrive in a sinful heart: In some soil plants will not grow; the cherishing of sin is the withering of the Fruit.
2. The love of riches: The cares of the world choked the seed, Matth. 13. The love of sin poisons the Fruit, the love of riches chokes it. This is like a blast upon trees, it destroys the precious Fruits of godliness: Love not the world, 1 Joh. 2.15.
2. The love of riches: The cares of the world choaked the seed, Matth. 13. The love of sin poisons the Fruit, the love of riches choaks it. This is like a blast upon trees, it destroyes the pretious Fruits of godliness: Love not the world, 1 Joh. 2.15.
3. The third means to fruitfulness, is weeping for sin. Moisture helps germination in trees; holy tears do water the trees of God and make them more fruitful: Mary Magdalen (a weeping plant) how fruitful was she in love to Christ? moist grounds, as your Marshes, are more fertile: the soul that is moistened and steeped in tears, is most frugiferous: never did Davids graces flourish more, than when he watered his Couch with tears. When the Plant hath been pricked whereby it lets forth gum, or tears, it is fuller of Fruit, and the Fruit is sweeter. That Christian who hath been pricked at heart for sin, whereby he lets forth plenty of tears, beareth the sweetest Fruits of grace: Moisture helps fruitfulness.