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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.
1. We must mourn for sin as it is an act of hostility and enmity. Sin doth not only make us unlike God, but contrary to God, Levit. 26.40. and that they have walked contrary unto me. Sin doth affront and resist the Holy Ghost, Acts 7.51. Sin is contrary to Gods nature; God is holy; sin is an impure thing; sin is contrary to his will; if God be of one mind, sin is of another; sin doth all it can to spite God. The Hebrew word for sin [Greek or Hebrew] signifies rebellion; a sinner doth [Greek or Hebrew]; now when we mourn for sin as it is a walking Antipodes to heaven, this is a Gospel-mourning; nature will not bear contraries.
1. We must mourn for sinne as it is an act of hostility and enmity. Sinne doth not only make us unlike God, but contrary to God, Levit. 26.40. and that they have walked contrary unto me. Sinne doth affront and resist the Holy Ghost, Acts 7.51. Sinne is contrary to Gods nature; God is holy; sinne is an impure thing; sin is contrary to his will; if God be of one minde, sinne is of another; sinne doth all it can to spight God. The Hebrew word for sinne 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 signifies rebellion; a sinner doth 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; now when we mourn for sinne as it is a walking Antipodes to heaven, this is a Gospel-mourning; nature will not bear contraries.
2. We must mourn for sin as it is a piece of the highest ingratitude; it is a kicking against the breasts of mercy. God sends his Son to redeem us, his Spirit to comfort us; we sin against the blood of Christ, the grace of the Spirit, and shall we not mourn? We complain of the unkindness of others, and shall we not lay to heart our own unkindness against God? Caesar took it unkindly that his son Brutus should stab him, [Greek or Hebrew], & thou my son? may not the Lord say to us, these wounds I have received in the house of my friends