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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.
4. The gracious soul mourns that he can do no better; when he fails, he weeps: O wretched man that I am, Rom. 7.24. O this unbelieving heart! how am I clogged with corruption! The good I would, I do not. Thus doth a Child of God lament his failings, and judge himself for them, and this is in a Gospel sense to keep every Law.
4. The gracious soul mourns that he can do no better; when he fails, he weeps: O wretched man that I am, Rom. 7.24. O this unbelieving heart! how am I clog'd with corruption! The good I would, I do not. Thus doth a Child of God lament his failings, and judge himself for them, and this is in a Gospel sense to keep every Law.
Unsound hearts as they are slight in their obedience, so they are partial; some duty they will dispense with, some sin they will indulge, in this thing the Lord pardon thy servant, 1 King. 5.18. The Hypocrite will walk in some of Gods statutes, not in all, like a foundered Jade that will not set all his feet upon the ground, but favours one foot: Such foundered Christians there are, who halt, and limp, and favour themselves in some things, though it be to the hazard of their souls; Herod could as well die as leave his Incest. True obedience is universal as the Papists say, we owe to our Mother the Church, an Unlimited subjection; its true here, we owe to our God Unlimited obedience.
Unsound hearts as they are slight in their obedience, so they are partial; some duty they will dispense with, some sinne they will indulge, in this thing the Lord pardon thy servant, 1 King. 5.18. The Hypocrite will walk in some of Gods statutes, not in all, like a foundred Jade that will not set all his feet upon the ground, but favours one foot: Such foundered Christians there are, who halt, and limp, and favour themselves in some things, though it be to the hazard of their souls; Herod could as well die as leave his Incest. True obedience is universal as the Papists say, we owe to our Mother the Church, an Unlimited subjection; its true here, we owe to our God Unlimited obedience.