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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.
8. Gospel-Mourning must be joined with hatred of sin. 2 Cor. 7.11. What indignation? We must not only abstain from sin, but abhor sin; the Dove hates the least feather of the Hawk*; a true Mourner hates the least motion to sin; a true Mourner is a sin hater: Amnen hated Tamar more than ever he loved her, 2 Sam. 13.5. To be a sin-hater, implies two things. 1. To look upon sin as the most deadly evil, a complicated evil; it looks more ghastly than death or hell. 2. To be implacably incensed against it; a sin-hater will never admit of any terms of peace; the War between him and sin, is like the War between Rehoboam and Jeroboam: 1 Kings 14.30. There was War between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days: Anger may be reconciled, hatred cannot; true Mourning begins in the love of God, and ends in the hatred of sin
8. Gospel-Mourning must be joyned with hatred of sin. 2 Cor. 7.11. What indignation? We must not only abstain from sin, but abhor sin; the Dove hates the least feather of the Hawk*; a true Mourner hates the least motion to sin; a true Mourner is a sin hater: Amnen hated Tamar more than ever he loved her, 2 Sam. 13.5. To be a sin-hater, implies two things. 1. To look upon sin as the most deadly evil, a complicated evil; it looks more ghastly than death or hell. 2. To be implacably incensed against it; a sin-hater will never admit of any terms of peace; the War between him and sin, is like the War between Rehoboam and Jeroboam: 1 Kings 14.30. There was War between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their dayes: Anger may be reconciled, hatred cannot; true Mourning begins in the love of God, and ends in the hatred of sin