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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.
5. A mourner for sin doth not only good to himself, Motive. 5 but to others; he helps to keep off wrath from a Land; as when Abraham was going to strike the blow, the Angel staid his hand, Gen. 22.12. so when God is going to destroy a Nation, the mourner stays his hand; tears in the child's eye sometimes move the angry father to spare the child; penitential tears melt Gods heart, and bind his hand: Jeremiah who was a weeping Prophet, was a great ⟨p. 94⟩intercessor; God saith to him, pray not for this people, Jer. 7.16. as if the Lord had said, Jeremiah, so powerful are thy prayers and tears, that if thou prayest I cannot deny thee; Si quid opus est impera, as he said in Plautus; tears have a mighty influence upon God: sure God hath some mourners in the Land, or he had destroyed us before now.
5. A mourner for sinne doth not only good to himself, Motive. 5 but to others; he helps to keep off wrath from a Land; as when Abraham was going to strike the blow, the Angel staid his hand, Gen. 22.12. so when God is going to destroy a Nation, the mourner stayes his hand; teares in the childs eye sometimes move the angry father to spare the child; penitential teares melt Gods heart, and binde his hand: Jeremy who was a weeping Prophet, was a great ⟨p. 94⟩intercessor; God saith to him, pray not for this people, Jer. 7.16. as if the Lord had said, Jeremy, so powerful are thy prayers and teares, that if thou prayest I cannot deny thee; Si quid opus est impera, as he said in Plautus; teares have a mighty influence upon God: sure God hath some mourners in the Land, or he had destroyed us before now.