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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.
Motives to holy mourning.
2. LET me exhort Christians to holy Mourning: Use 2 1I now persuade such a Mourning as will prepare the soul for blessedness. Oh that our hearts were spiritual limbecks, distilling the water of holy tears! Christs Doves weep. Ezek. 7.16. They that escape shall be like Doves of the Valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity. There are several Divine Motives to holy Mourning.
2. LET me exhort Christians to holy Mourning: Use 2 1I now perswade such a Mourning as will prepare the soul for blessedness. Oh that our hearts were spiritual limbicks, distilling the water of holy tears! Christs Doves weep. Ezek. 7.16. They that escape shall be like Doves of the Vallies, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity. There are several Divine Motives to holy Mourning.
- 1Exhort.
1. Tears cannot be put to a better use; if you weep Motive. 1 for outward losses, you lose your tears; 'tis like a shower upon a Rock, which doth no good; but tears for sin are blessed tears; Blessed are they that mourn. These poison our corruptions; salt-water kills the worms; the brinish water of repenting tears will help to kill that worm of sin which would gnaw the conscience.