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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.
Disobedience is
1. A sin against Reason; are we able to stand it out in defiance against God? 1 Cor. 10.22. Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he? it is as if the thorns should set them selves in battle array against the fire; will the sinner go to measure arms with the great God? what Solomon saith of laughter, Eccles. 2.2. the same may be said of Rebellion, it is mad.
1. A sin against Reason; are we able to stand it out in defiance against God? 1 Cor. 10.22. Do we provoke the Lord to jealousie? are we stronger than he? it is as if the thorns should set them selves in battel array against the fire; will the sinner go to measure arms with the great God? what Solomon saith of laughter, Eccles. 2.2. the same may be said of Rebellion, it is mad.
2. Disobedience is a sin against Equity: we have our subsistence from God, in him we live and move; and is it not equal that as we live upon him, we should live to him? justitia jus suum cuique tribuit; is it not just and fitting that as God gives us our allowance, we should give him our allegiance? If the General give his Soldier pay, the Soldier is to march at his command, not only by the Law of Arms, but the Law of equity.