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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.
TO illustrate this Point of holy Mourning, I shall show you what is the Adequate object of it. There are two objects of spiritual mourning, sin and misery.
TO illustrate this Point of holy Mourning, I shall shew you what is the Adequate object of it. There are two objects of spiritual mourning, sin and misery.
1. Sin, and that twofold; 1. Our own sin. 2. The sin of others.
1. Our own sin; sin must have tears: Nihil est fletu dignum nisi peccatum*: While we carry the fire of sin about us, we must carry the water of tears to quench it: Ezek. 7.16. They are not blessed (saith Chrysostom) who mourn for the dead, but who mourn for sin*; and indeed good reason we mourn for sin, if we consider, 1. The guilt of sin, which binds over to wrath: Will not a guilty person weep, who is to be bound over to the Sessions? every sinner is to be tried for his life, and is sure to be cast, if mercy doth not become an Advocate for him. 2. The pollution of sin; sin is a plague-spot, and wilt thou not labour to wash away this spot with thy tears? sin makes a man worse than a toad or serpent; the serpent hath nothing but what God hath put into it, poison is medicinable; but the sinner hath that which the Devil hath put into him. Acts 5.3. Why hath Satan filled thy heart to lye to the Holy Ghost? What a strange Metamorphosis hath sin made! the soul which was once of an azure brightness, sin hath made of a sable colour; we have in our hearts the seed of the unpardonable sin; we have the seeds of all those sins for which the damned are now tormented; and