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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.
CHAP. VII.
Containing a sharp Reprehension.
Use 1 Use 1 THIS Doctrine draws up a Charge against several sorts. Reproof.
Branch. 1 1. Those that think themselves good Christians, yet have not learned this Art of holy Mourning. Luther calls Mourning Bara herba, a rare herb. Men have tears to shed for other things, but have none to spare for their sins; there are many Murmurers, but few Mourners; most are like the stony ground, which wanted moisture, Matth. 13. We have many cry out of hard times, but are not sensible of hard hearts; hot and dry is the worst temper of the body; sure I am to be hot in sin, and to be so dry, as to have no tears, is the worst temper of the soul: How many are like Gideons dry Fleece, and like the Mountains of Gilboa, there is no dew upon them. Did Christ bleed for sin, and canst not thou weep? if Gods bottle be not filled with tears, his Vial will be filled with wrath. We have many sinners in Zion, but few mourners in Zion. It is with most people, as with a man on the top of a Mast, the Winds blow, and the Waves beat, and the ship is in danger of shipwreck, and he is fast asleep; so when the Waves of sin have even covered men, and the stormy wind of Gods Wrath blows, and is ready to blow them into hell, yet they are asleep in security.