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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.
3. A conceit that this mourning will make us melancholy: Hindr. 3 We shall drown all our joy in our tears; but this is a mistake. Lose our joy? tell me what joy can there be in a natural condition? what joy doth sin afford? is not sin compared to a wound and a bruise? Isa. 1.6. David had his broken bones, Psal. 51. Is there any comfort in having the bones out of joint? doth not sin breed a palpitation and trembling of heart? Deutr. 28.66. Is it any joy for a man to be a Magor-missabib, a terror to himself? Surely of the sinners laughter it may be said, it is mad, Eccles. 2.2. Whereas holy mourning is the breeder of joy, it doth not eclipse, but refine our joy, and make it better*; the Prodigal dated his joy from the time of his Repentance, Luke 15.24. Then they began to be merry.
3. A conceit that this mourning will make us melancholy: Hindr. 3 We shall drown all our joy in our tears; but this is a mistake. Lose our joy? tell me what joy can there be in a natural condition? what joy doth sin afford? is not sin compared to a wound and a bruise? Isa. 1.6. David had his broken bones, Psal. 51. Is there any comfort in having the bones out of joynt? doth not sin breed a palpitation and trembling of heart? Deutr. 28.66. Is it any joy for a man to be a Magor-missabib, a terror to himself? Surely of the sinners laughter it may be said, it is mad, Eccles. 2.2. Whereas holy mourning is the breeder of joy, it doth not eclipse, but refine our joy, and make it better*; the Prodigal dated his joy from the time of his Repentance, Luke 15.24