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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.
5. Gospel-tears must drop from the eye of faith, Mark 9.24. The father of the child cried out with tears, Lord, I believe; our disease must make us mourn; but when we look up to our Physician, who hath made a plaster of his own blood, we must not mourn without hope; believing tears are precious; when the clouds of sorrow have overcast the soul, some Sun-shine of faith must break forth; the soul will be swallowed up of sorrow, it will be drowned in tears, if faith be not the bladder to keep it up from sinking; though our tears drop to the earth, our faith must reach heaven; after the greatest rain, faith must appear as the Rainbow in the cloud; the tears of faith are bottled as ⟨p. 76⟩precious wine Psal. 56.8.
5. Gospel-tears must drop from the eye of faith, Mark 9.24. The father of the childe cryed out with tears, Lord, I believe; our disease must make us mourn; but when we look up to our Physitian, who hath made a playster of his own blood, we must not mourn without hope; believing tears are precious; when the clouds of sorrow have overcast the soul, some Sun-shine of faith must break forth; the soul will be swallowed up of sorrow, it will be drowned in tears, if faith be not the bladder to keep it up from sinking; though our tears drop to the earth, our faith must reach heaven; after the greatest rain, faith must appear as the Rainbow in the cloud; the tears of faith are botled as ⟨p. 76⟩precious wine Psal. 56.8.
6. Gospel-Mourning is joined with self-loathing; the sinner doth admire himself, the penitent doth loath himself.