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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. Mourning doth make the soul fruitful in grace: When a shower falls, the herbs and plants grow. Isaiah 16.9. I will water thee with my tears O Heshbon. I may allude to it; tears water our graces, and make them flourish. Psal. 104 10. he sends his springs into the valleys; that is the reason the valleys flourish with corn, because the springs run there; where the springs of sorrow run, there the heart bears a fruitful crop: Leah was tender-eyed, she had a watery eye, and was fruitful; the tender-eyed Christian usually brings more of the fruits of the Spirit; a weeping eye is the water-pot to water our graces.
1. Mourning doth make the soul fruitful in grace: When a showre falls, the herbs and plants grow. Isaiah 16.9. I will water thee with my tears O Heshbon. I may allude to it; tears water our graces, and make them flourish. Psal. 104 10. he sends his springs into the vallies; that is the reason the vallies flourish with corn, because the springs run there; where the springs of sorrow run, there the heart bears a fruitful crop: Leah was tender-eyed, she had a watry eye, and was fruitful; the tender-eyed Christian usually brings more of the fruits of the Spirit; a weeping eye is the water-pot to water our graces.
2. Mourning doth fence us against the Devils Tentations: Tentations are called [Greek or Hebrew], fiery darts, Ephes. 6.16. because indeed they set the soul on fire; Tentations enrage anger, inflame lust; now the waters of holy Mourning quench these fiery darts; wet powder will not soon take the fire; when the heart is wetted and moistened with sorrow, it will not so easily take the fire of Tentation; tears are the best Engines and Water-works to quench the Devils fire;