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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. Apply the Promises. Husbandmen have an art to comfort the spirits of the Root to make the tree bear better: Apply the Promises; these are for comforting the spirits of a Christian, and then he puts forth fruit more vigorously. It is an experiment in nature, the Root of the Pine tree watered with wine, doth cause it to flourish, the Promises are as wine to water the Trees of Righteousness whereby they spread and augment more in grace. Ever preserve the spirits of the tree if you would have it bear; a pensive dejected soul is less fruitful; but when through the Promises a Christians heart is cheered and comforted, now he is enriched with pleasant fruits, Camphire, and Spikenard, and Frankincense; he is like a Tree laden with fruit.
2. Apply the Promises. Husbandmen have an art to comfort the spirits of the Root to make the tree bear better: Apply the Promises; these are for comforting the spirits of a Christian, and then he puts forth fruit more vigorously. It is an experiment in nature, the Root of the Pine tree watered with wine, doth cause it to flourish, the Promises are as wine to water the Trees of Righteousness whereby they spread and augment more in grace. Ever preserve the spirits of the tree if you would have it bear; a pensive dejected soul is less fruitful; but when through the Promises a Christians heart is cheared and comforted, now he is enriched with pleasant fruits, Camphire, and Spiknard, and Frankincense; he is like a Tree laden with fruit.
5. Another means to fruitfulness, is humility. The low grounds are most fruitful: The Valleys are covered with Corn, Psal. 65.13. The humble heart is the fruitful heart. It is observed in some Countries, as in France, that the best and largest Grapes which they make their wine of, grow upon the lower sort of Vines. The largest and fairest Fruits of the Spirit grow in a lowly Christian: 1 Pet. 5.5. God gives grace to the humble. St. Paul calls himself the least of Saints, yet he was the chief of the Apostles. The Virgin Mary was low in her own eyes,