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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.
Motive. 6 6. Holy mourning is preventing physic; our mourning for sin here, will prevent mourning in hell; hell is locus ejulatus, a place of weeping, Matth. 8.12. the damned mingle their drink with weeping. God is said to hold his bottle for our tears, Psal. 56.8. They who will not shed a bottle full of tears, shall hereafter shed rivers of tears, Luke 6.25. Woe to you that laugh now, for ye shall mourn. You have sometimes seen sugar lying in a damp place dissolve to water; all the sugared joys of the wicked dissolve at last to the water of tears; now tears will do us good, now it is seasonable weeping, 'tis like a shower in the spring; if we do not weep now, it will be too late: did we hear the language of the damned, they are now cursing themselves that they did not weep soon enough. O is it not better to have our hell here, than hereafter? is it not better to shed repenting tears than despairing tears? he that weeps here is a blessed mourner; he that weeps in hell is a cursed mourner. The Physician by letting the Patient blood, prevents death: by the opening a vein of godly sorrow, we prevent the death of our souls.
Motive. 6 6. Holy mourning is preventing physick; our mourning for sinne here, will prevent mourning in hell; hell is locus ejulatus, a place of weeping, Matth. 8.12. the damned mingle their drink with weeping. God is said to hold his bottle for our teares, Psal. 56.8. They who will not shed a bottle full of teares, shall hereafter shed rivers of teares, Luke 6.25. Woe to you that laugh now, for ye shall mourn. You have sometimes seene sugar lying in a damp place dissolve to water; all the sugred joyes of the wicked dissolve at last to the water of teares; now teares will do us good, now it is seasonable weeping, 'tis like a shower in the spring; if we do not weep now, it will be too late: did we hear the language of the damned, they are now cursing themselves that they did not weep soon enough. O is it not better to have our hell here, than hereafter? is it not better to shed repenting tears than despairing tears? he that weeps here is a blessed mourner; he that weeps in hell is a cursed mourner. The Physitian by letting the Patient blood, prevents death: by the opening a veine of godly sorrow, we prevent the death of our souls.