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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. 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. And he that hath stumbled upon sin unawares, will weep; but the love of sin hardens the heart, keeps the Devil in possession; in true mourning there must be a grieving for sin; but how can a man grieve for that sin which his heart is in love with? oh take heed of this sweet poison; the love of sin freezeth the soul in impenitency.
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. And he that hath stumbled upon sin unawares, will weep; but the love of sin hardens the heart, keeps the Divel in possession; in true mourning there must be a grieving for sin; but how can a man grieve for that sin which his heart is in love with? oh take heed of this sweet poyson; the love of sin freezeth the soul in impenitency.