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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. 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*! [Greek or Hebrew] *Israel took their jewels and ear-rings and made a golden Calf of them; the sinner takes the jewels of Gods mercies, and makes use of them to sin; ingratitude dies a sin in grain, hence they are called crimson sins, Isa. 1.18. sins against Gospel-love are worse in some sense than the sins of the Devils, for they never had an offer of ⟨p. 74⟩Grace tendered to them, Diabolus peccavit in innocentia constitutus, ego vero restitutus: ille perstitit in malitia, Deo reprobante, ego vero Deo revocante; ille obduratur ad punientem, ego vero ad blandientem; & sic uterque contra Deum, ille contra non requirentem se, ego vero contra morientem pro me; ecce cujus imaginem horrebam, in multis aspicio me horribiliorem. Anselm. de Casu Diab. Now when we mourn for sin as it hath its accent of ingratitude upon it, this is an Evangelical mourning,
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 Sonne to redeeme us, his Spirit to comfort us; we sinne against the blood of Christ, the grace of the Spirit, and shall we not mourn? We complaine of the unkindnesse of others, and shall we not lay to heart our own unkindnesse against God? Caesar took it unkindly that his son Brutus should stab him, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, & thou my son? may not the Lord say to us, these wounds I have received in the house of my friends*