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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.
6. Gospel-Mourning is joined with self-loathing; the sinner doth admire himself, the penitent doth loath himself. Ezek. 20.42. Ye shall loath your selves in your own sight for all your evils. A true penitentiary is troubled not only for the shameful consequence of sin, but the loathsome nature of sin; not only the sting of sin, but the deformed face; How did the Leper loath himself? Lev. 13.45. The Hebrew Doctors say, the Leper pronounced unclean, was to put a covering on his upper lip, both as a Mourner, and in token of shame*, The true Mourner cries out, O these impure eyes, this heart which is a conclave of wickedness! he not only leaves sin, but loathes fin; he that is fallen in the dirt, loathes himself*.
6. Gospel-Mourning is joyned with self-loathing; the sinner doth admire himself, the penitent doth loath himself. Ezek. 20.42. Ye shall loath your selves in your own sight for all your evils. A true penitentiary is troubled not only for the shameful consequence of sin, but the loathsome nature of sin; not only the sting of sin, but the deformed face; How did the Leper loath himself? Lev. 13.45. The Hebrew Doctors say, the Leper pronounced unclean, was to put a covering on his upper lip, both as a Mourner, and in token of shame*, The true Mourner cries out, O these impure eyes, this heart which is a conclave of wickedness! he not only leaves sin, but loaths fin; he that is fallen in the dirt, loaths himself*.
- *Maimony. cap. 10.
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