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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. An hypocritical Mourning; the heart is very deceitful, it can betray as well by a tear, as by a kiss: Saul ⟨p. 71⟩looks like a mourner, and as he was sometimes among the Prophets, 1 Sam. 10.12. so he seemed to be among the Penitents, 1 Sam. 15.25. And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned, for I have transgressed the the commandment of the Lord. Saul did play the hypocrite in his mourning; for 1. He did not take shame to himself, but he did rather take honour to himself, verse 30. honour me before the Elders of the people. 2. He did pare and mince his sin that it might appear lesser; he laid his sin upon the people, ver. 24. because I feared the people; they would have me fly upon the spoil, and I durst do no other; a true mourner labours to draw out sin in its bloody colours, and accent it with all its killing aggravations, that he may be deeply humbled before the Lord, Ezra 9.6. Our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespasses are grown up unto heaven. The true penitent labours to make the worst of his sin; Saul labours to make the best of sin; like a patient that makes the best of his disease, lest the Physician should prescribe him too sharp physic. How easy is it for a man to put a chea• upon his own soul, and by hypocrisy to weep himself into hell!
2. An hypocritical Mourning; the heart is very deceitful, it can betray as well by a tear, as by a kiss: Saul ⟨p. 71⟩looks like a mourner, and as he was sometimes among the Prophets, 1 Sam. 10.12. so he seemed to be among the Penitents, 1 Sam. 15.25. And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned, for I have transgressed the the commandment of the Lord. Saul did play the hypocrite in his mourning; for 1. He did not take shame to himself, but he did rather take honour to himself, verse 30. honour me before the Elders of the people. 2. He did pare and mince his sinne that it might appear lesser; he laid his sinne upon the people, ver. 24. because I feared the people; they would have me flie upon the spoile, and I durst do no other; a true mourner labours to draw out sinne in its bloody colours, and accent it with all its killing aggravations, that he may be deeply humbled before the Lord,