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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.
Hindr. 2 2. Despair; despair affronts God, undervalues Christs blood, damns the soul. Jerem. 8.12. They said there ⟨p. 99⟩is no hope, but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart: This is the language of despair, there is no hope, I had as good follow my sins still, and be damned for something; despair presents God to the soul, as a Judge clad in the garments of vengeance, Isa. 59.17. Judas his despair was in some sense worse than his Treason. Despair destroys Repentance; for the proper ground of Repentance, is mercy. Rom. 2.4. The goodness of God leads thee to Repentance. But despair hides mercy out of sight, as the cloud covered the Ark, Exod. 39. Oh take heed of this; Despair is an irrational sin, there is no ground for it; the Lord shows mercy to thousands, why mayest not thou be one of a thousand? the wings of Gods mercy, like the wings of the Cherubims, are stretched out to every humble penitent; though thou hast been a great sinner, yet if thou art a weeping sinner, there's a golden Sceptre of mercy held forth, Psal. 103.11. Despair locks up the soul in impenitency.
Hindr. 2 2. Despair; despair affronts God, undervalues Christs blood, damns the soul. Jerem. 8.12. They said there ⟨p. 99⟩is no hope, but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart: This is the language of despair, there is no hope, I had as good follow my sins still, and be damned for something; despair presents God to the soul, as a Judge clad in the garments of vengeance, Isa. 59.17. Judas his despair was in some sense worse than his Treason. Despair destroys Repentance; for the proper ground of Repentance, is mercy.