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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.
Setting forth the Degrees of Mourning.
NEXT to the seasons of Mourning, let us consider the degree of it; the Mourning for sin must be a very great Mourning; the Greek word [Greek or Hebrew], imports a great sorrow, such as is seen at the Funeral of a dear friend*. Zach. 12.10. They shall look on me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one that mourneth for his only son. The sorrow for an only child is very great; such must be the sorrow for sin. Ver. 11. In that day there shall be great Mourning, as the Mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon. In that Valley Josiah, that famous and pious Prince was cut off by an untimely death, at whose Funeral there was bitter lamentation; thus bitterly must we bewail, not the death, but the life of our sins. Now then to set forth the graduation of sorrow:
NEXT to the seasons of Mourning, let us consider the degree of it; the Mourning for sin must be a very great Mourning; the Greek word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, imports a great sorrow, such as is seen at the Funeral of a dear friend*. Zach. 12.10. They shall look on me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one that mourneth for his only son. The sorrow for an only child is very great; such must be the sorrow for sin. Ver. 11. In that day there shall be great Mourning, as the Mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon. In that Valley Josiah, that famous and pious Prince was cut off by an untimely death, at whose Funeral there was bitter lamentation; thus bitterly must we bewail, not the death, but the life of our sins. Now then to set forth the graduation of sorrow: