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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.
SECT. 3.
What is the right Gospel-mourning?
WHat is the right Gospel-mourning?
Answ. That mourning which will entitle a man to blessedness, hath these qualifications.
Answ. That mourning which will entitle a man to blessednesse, hath these qualifications.
1. It is spontaneous and free; it must come as water out of a spring, not as fire out of a flint. Tears for sin must be like the myrrh which drops from the tree freely without cutting or forcing. Mary Magdalens repentance was voluntary, she stood weeping, Luke 7. She came to Christ with ointment in her hand, with love in her heart, with tears in her eyes; God is for a freewill-offering, he loves not to be put to distrain.
1. It is spontaneous and free; it must come as water out of a spring, not as fire out of a flint. Teares for sin must be like the myrrhe which drops from the tree freely without cutting or forcing. Mary Magdalens repentance was voluntary, she stood weeping,