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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.
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.
1. Tears cannot be put to a better use; if you weep Motive. 1 for outward losses, you lose your tears; 'tis like a showre upon a Rock, which doth no good; but tears for sin are blessed tears; Blessed are they that mourn. These poyson 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.
2. Gospel-Mourning is an evidence of grace. Zach. Motive. 2 12.10. I will pour upon the house of David and the Inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace, and they shall mourn, &c. The Holy Ghost descended on Christ like a Dove, Matth. 3. The Dove is a weeping creature; where there is a Dove-like weeping, it is a good sign the Spirit of God hath descended there; weeping for sin is a sign of the new birth; as soon as the child is born, it weeps. Exod. 2.3. And behold the babe wept. To weep kindly ⟨p. 92⟩for sin, is a good sign we are born of God. Mourning shows an heart of flesh, Ezek. 36.26. A stone will not melt; when the heart is in a melting frame, it is a sign the heart of stone is taken away.
2. Gospel-Mourning is an evidence of grace. Zach. Motive. 2 12.10. I will poure upon the house of David and the Inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace, and they shall mourn, &c. The Holy Ghost descended on Christ like a Dove,