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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.
SECT. 2.
1 WHAT is not the right Gospel-Mourning for sin; there is a five-fold Mourning which is false and spurious.
1. A despairing kind of Mourning; such was Judas his Mourning; he saw his sin, he was sorry, he made confession, he justifies Christ, he makes Restitution: Mat. 27. Judas who is in hell, did more than many now adays; he confessed his sin; he did not plead necessity, or good intentions; but he makes an open acknowledgement of his sin, I have sinned; Judas made Restitution; his conscience told him he came wickedly by the money; it was the price of blood, and he brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the High Priests, Matth. 27.3. But how many are there who invade the rights and possessions of others, but not a word of Restitution! Judas was honester than they are; well, wherein was Judas his sorrow blame-worthy? it was a Mourning joined with despair; he thought his wound broader than the plaster; he drowned himself in tears; his was not a Repentance unto life*, but rather unto death.
1. A despairing kind of Mourning; such was Judas his Mourning; he saw his sin, he was sorry, he made confession, he justifies Christ, he makes Restitution: Mat. 27. Judas who is in hell, did more than many now adayes; he confessed his sin; he did not plead necessity, or good intentions; but he makes an open acknowledgement of his sin, I have sinned; Judas made Restitution; his conscience told him he came wickedly by the money; it was the price of blood, and he brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the High Priests,