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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.
3. Disobedience is a sin against Conscience; God by Creation is our Father, so that Conscience binds to duty: Mal. 1.6. If then I be a Father, where is my honour?
4. Disobedience is a sin against our Vows: We have taken the oath of Allegiance. Thy vows are upon me O God, Psal. 65.12. We have many vows upon us; our Baptismal vow, our Sacramental, our National, our Sick-bed vows; here are four cords to draw us to obedience, and if we slip these Sacred Knots, and cast these cords from us, will not God come upon us for Perjury? If oaths will not bind us, God hath chains that will.
5. Disobedience is a sin against our Prayers. We pray, Thy will be done: So that by Non-obedience we confute our selves, and live in a contradiction to our own prayers. That man who is self-confuted, is self-condemned.
6. Disobedience is a sin against Kindness. 'Tis a disingenuous sin: it is a kicking against Gods bowels, a despising the riches of his goodness,