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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.
Though we must always keep open the issue of godly sorrow, yet there are some seasons wherein our tears should overflow, as the water sometimes riseth higher; there are three special seasons of extraordinary Mourning, when it should be as it were high-water in the soul.
THough we must always keep open the issue of godly sorrow, yet there are some seasons wherein our tears should overflow, as the water sometimes riseth higher; there are three special seasons of extraordinary Mourning, when it should be as it were high-water in the soul.
1. When there are indicia irae, tokens of Gods Season. 1 wrath breaking forth in the Nation. England hath been under Gods black Rod these many years; the Lord hath drawn the Sword, and it is not yet put up; O that our tears may blunt the edge of this Sword; when it is a time of treading down, now is a time of breaking up the fallow ⟨p. 84⟩ground of our hearts. Isa. 22.4, 5. Therefore said I, look away from me, I will weep bitterly, for it is a time of treading down. Joel 2.2, 13. A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of cloud, &c. therefore turn ye even to me with weeping and with mourning. Rain follows thunder: When God thunders in a Nation by his judgements, now the showers of tears must distil: When God smites upon our back, we must smite upon our thigh, Jer. 31.19. When God seems to stand upon the Threshold of the Temple, as if he were ready to take his wings and fly*, then is a time to lie weeping between the Porch and the Altar. If the Lord seems to be packing up and carrying away his Gospel, it is now high time to mourn, that by our tears possibly his Repentings may be kindled.