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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.
Quest. BUT what shall we do to get our heart into this mourning frame?
Answ. Do two things. 1. Take heed of those things which will stop these Channels of mourning.
2. Put your selves upon the use of all means that will help forward holy mourning.
1. Take heed of those things which will stop the current of tears; there are nine hindrances of mourning.
Hindr. 1 1. The love of sin; the love of sin is like a stone in the pipe, which hinders the current of water; the love of sin makes sin taste sweet, and this sweetness in sin-bewitcheth the heart: Saint Hierom saith, it is worse to love sin, than to commit it: A man may be overtaken with sin, Gal. 6.1