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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. Gospel-mourning cogit ad Deum, it sends the soul to God. When the Prodigal son repented, he went to his father, Luke 15.18. I will arise and go unto my father. Jacob wept and prayed, Hos. 12.3. The people of Israel wept and offered sacrifice, Judg. 2.5. Gospel-mourning puts a man upon duty; the reason is, because in true sorrow there is a mixture of hope, and hope puts the soul upon the use or means; That mourning which like the flaming sword, keeps the soul from approaching to God, and beats it off from duty, is a sinful mourning; 'tis a sorrow ⟨p. 75⟩hatched in hell; such was Sauls grief, which drove him to the Witch of Endor, 1 Sam. 28.7. Evangelical Mourning is a spur to prayer; the child who weeps for offending his father, goes into his presence, and will not leave till his father be reconciled to him. Absalom could not be quiet till he had seen the Kings face, 2 Sam. 14.32, 33.
3. Gospel-mourning cogit ad Deum, it sends the soul to God. When the Prodigal sonne repented, he went to his father, Luke 15.18. I will arise and go unto my father. Jacob wept and prayed, Hos. 12.3. The people of Israel wept and offered sacrifice, Judg. 2.5. Gospel-mourning puts a man upon duty; the reason is, because in true sorrow there is a mixture of hope, and hope puts the soul upon the use or means; That mourning which like the flaming sword, keeps the soul from approaching to God, and beats it off from duty, is a sinful mourning; 'tis a sorrow ⟨p. 75⟩hatch'd in hell; such was Sauls grief, which drove him to the Witch of Endor,