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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. Gospel-mourning is spiritual; that is, when we mourn for sin more than suffering. Pharaoh saith, Take away the plague, he never thought of the plague of his heart. A sinner mourns because judgement follows at the heels of sin; but David cries out, my sin is ever before me, Psal. 51. God had threatened that the sword should ride in circuit in his family; but David doth not say, the sword is ever before me, but my sin is ever before me; The offence against God troubled him; he grieved more ⟨p. 73⟩for the treason than the bloody axe; thus the Penitent Prodigal, Luke 15.21. I have sinned against heaven, [Greek or Hebrew], and before thee; he doth not say, I am almost starved among the husks, but I have offended my father. In particular, our mourning for sin, if it be spiritual, must be under this threefold notion.
2. Gospel-mourning is spiritual; that is, when we mourn for sinne more than suffering. Pharaoh saith, Take away the plague, he never thought of the plague of his heart. A sinner mourns because judgement follows at the heeles of sinne; but David cries out, my sinne is ever before me, Psal. 51. God had threatned that the sword should ride in circuit in his family; but David doth not say, the sword is ever before me, but my sinne is ever before me; The offence against God troubled him; he grieved more ⟨p. 73⟩for the treason than the bloody axe; thus the Penitent Prodigal, Luke 15.21. I have sinned against heaven, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, and before thee; he doth not say, I am almost starved among the husks, but I have offended my father. In particular, our mourning for sinne, if it be spiritual, must be under this threefold notion.