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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.
2. Want of Practice, is for want of faith. Isa. 53.1. Who hath believed our report? This makes Sermons to be like showers of rain falling upon a rock, they neither mollify, nor fructify, because men are in part infidels; they had rather dispute then believe: such as live Sceptics die Atheists. Did men believe sin were so bitter, that wrath and hell followed it, would they take this ⟨p. 643⟩serpent into their bosom? Did they believe there were a beauty in holiness; did they believe godliness were gain; that there were joy in the way, and heaven at the end, would they not turn their feet into the way? Men have some slight transient thoughts of these things, but their judgments are not fully convinced, nor their conscience fully captivated into the belief of them. This, this is Satan's master-piece, his draw-net by which he drags millions to hell by keeping them in infidelity; he knows if he can but keep them from the belief of the truth, he is sure to keep them from the practice of it.
2. Want of Practice, is for want of faith. Isa. 53.1. Who hath believed our report? This makes Sermons to be like showres of raine falling upon a rock, they neither mollifie, nor fructifie, because men are in part infidels; they had rather dispute then believe: such as live Scepticks die Atheists. Did men believe sin were so bitter, that wrath and hell followed it, would they take this ⟨p. 643⟩serpent into their bosom? Did they believe there were a beautie in holiness; did they believe godliness were gain; that there were joy in the way, and heaven at the end, would they not turn their feet into the way? Men have some slight transient thoughts of these things, but their judgments are not fully convinced, nor their conscience fully captivated into the belief of them. This, this is Satans master-piece, his draw-net by which he drags millions to hell by keeping them in infidelitie; he knows if he can but keep them from the belief of the truth, he is sure to keep them from the practice of it.