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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.
Have not we cause to mourn for the sins of others? the whole Axle-tree of the Nation is ready to break under the weight of sin; what an inundation of wickedness is there amongst us? Mourn for the hypocrisy of the times. Jehu saith, Come see my zeal for the Lord; but it was zeal for the Throne. This is the hypocrisy of some, they entitle God to whatever they do, they make bold with God ⟨p. 81⟩to use his Name to their wickedness; as if a Thief should pretend the Kings Warrant for his Robbery. Micah 3.11. They build up Zion with blood, the heads thereof judge for reward; yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us? Many with a religious kiss smite the Gospel under the fifth rib*: Could not Ahab be content to kill and take possession, but must he usher it in with Religion, and make fasting a Preface to his murder? 1 Kings 21.12. The white Devil is worst; a burning Torch in the hand of a Ghost is most affrighting; to hear the Name of God in the mouths of scandalous hypocrites, is enough to affright others from the profession of Religion.
Have not we cause to mourn for the sins of others? the whole Axle-tree of the Nation is ready to break under the weight of sin; what an inundation of wickedness is there amongst us? Mourn for the hypocrisie of the times. Jehu saith, Come see my zeal for the Lord; but it was zeal for the Throne. This is the hypocrisie of some, they intitle God to whatever they do, they make bold with God ⟨p. 81⟩to use his Name to their wickedness; as if a Thief should pretend the Kings Warrant for his Robbery. Micah 3.11. They build up Sion with blood, the heads thereof judge for reward; yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us? Many with a religious kiss smite the Gospel under the fifth rib*: Could not Ahab be content to kill and take possession, but must he usher it in with Religion, and make fasting a Preface to his murder?