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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.
SECT. 4.
Showing, That we must mourn for the sins of others.
Shewing, That we must mourn for the sins of others.
2. AS we must mourn for our own sins, so we must lay to heart the sins of others*. The Poets feign that Biblis was turned into a Fountain; thus we should wish with Jeremiah, that our eyes were a Fountain of tears, that we might weep day and night for the iniquity of the times; our blessed Saviour mourned for the sins of the Jews, Mark 3.5. Being grieved, super callo, for the hardness, or brawniness of their hearts; and holy David looking upon the sins of the wicked, his heart was turned into a spring, and his eyes into Rivers. Psal. 119.136. Rivers of tears run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy Law. Lots Righteous soul was vexed with the unclean conversation of the wicked, 2 Pet. 2.7. Lot took the sins of Sodom, and made spears of them to pierce his own soul: Cyprian saith that in the Primitive times, when a Virgin who vowed her self to Religion, had defiled her chastity, shame and grief filled the whole face of the Congregation*