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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.
3. We must mourn for sin as it is a Privation; it keeps good things from us; it hinders our communion with God. Mary wept for Christs absence, John 20.13. they have taken away my Lord. So, our sins have taken away our Lord; they have deprived us of his sweet presence. Will not he grieve who hath lost a rich jewel? When we mourn for sin under this notion, as it makes the Sun of righteousness withdraw from our Horizon; when we mourn not so much that peace is gone, and trading is gone, but God is gone; Cant. 5.6. My beloved had withdrawn himself; this is an holy mourning; the mourning for the loss of Gods favour, is the best way to regain his favour. If thou hast lost a friend, all thy weeping will not fetch him again: but if thou hast lost Gods presence, thy mourning will bring thy God again.
3. We must mourn for sinne as it is a Privation; it keeps good things from us; it hinders our communion with God. Mary wept for Christs absence, John 20.13. they have taken away my Lord. So, our sinnes have taken away our Lord; they have deprived us of his sweet presence. Will not he grieve who hath lost a rich jewel? When we mourn for sinne under this notion, as it makes the Sun of righteousnesse withdraw from our Horizon; when we mourn not so much that peace is gone, and trading is gone, but God is gone; Cant. 5.6. My beloved had withdrawn himself; this is an holy mourning; the mourning for the losse of Gods favour, is the best way to regaine his favour. If thou hast lost a friend, all thy weeping will not fetch him again: but if thou hast lost Gods presence, thy mourning will bring thy God again.