A96093:2266
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. Inanimate creatures obey God. The Stars in their course fought against Cisera. Judg. 5. The Wind and the Sea obey him. Mar. 4.41. The very Stones if God give them a Commission, will cry out against the sins of men. Hab. 2.11. The stone shall cry out of the wall, and the ⟨p. 650⟩beam out of the timber shall answer it. If men should be silent, the stones would in some manner have testified of Christ. Luk. 19.40. At Christs Passion the Rocks did rend. Mat. 27.51. Which tearing Rhetoric was a voice to tell the world that the Messiah was now crucified. Shall every creature obey God but man? O Christian, think thus with thy self; if God had made me a stone, I should have obeyed him; and now that he hath made me rational, shall I refuse to obey? This is against Nature. There are none that disobey God but Man and the Devil, and can we find none to join with but the Devil?
2. Inanimate creatures obey God. The Stars in their course fought against Cisera. Judg. 5. The Wind and the Sea obey him. Mar. 4.41. The very Stones if God give them a Commission, will cry out against the sins of men. Hab. 2.11. The stone shall cry out of the wall, and the ⟨p. 650⟩beam out of the timber shall answer it. If men should be silent, the stones would in some manner have testified of Christ. Luk. 19.40. At Christs Passion the Rocks did rend.