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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.
4. Checking the motions of the Spirit; the Spirit sets Hindr. 4 ⟨p. 100⟩us a mourning, it causeth all our spring-tides, Psal. 87.7. all my springs are in thee. Oft we meet with gracious motions to prayer, and repentance; now when we stifle these motions, which is called a quenching the Spirit, 1 Thes. 5.19. then we do, as it were, hinder the tide from coming in. When the dew falls, then the ground is wet; when the Spirit of God falls as dew in its influences upon the soul, then it is moistened with sorrow; but if the Spirit withdraw, the soul is like Gideons dry fleece; a ship can as well sail without the wind, a bird can as well fly without wings, as we can mourn without the Spirit. Take heed of grieving the Spirit; do not drive away this sweet Dove from the ark of thy soul. The Spirit is res tenera & delicata; if it be grieved, it may say, I will come no more; and if it once withdraw we cannot mourn.
4. Checking the motions of the Spirit; the Spirit sets Hindr. 4 ⟨p. 100⟩us a mourning, it causeth all our spring-tides, Psal. 87.7. all my springs are in thee. Oft we meet with gracious motions to prayer, and repentance; now when we stifle these motions, which is called a quenching the Spirit, 1 Thes. 5.19. then we do, as it were, hinder the tyde from coming in. When the dew falls, then the ground is wet; when the Spirit of God falls as dew in its influences upon the soul, then it is moistned with sorrow; but if the Spirit withdraw, the soul is like Gideons dry fleece; a ship can as well sail without the wind, a bird can as well flie without wings, as we can mourn without the Spirit. Take heed of grieving the Spirit; do not drive away this sweet Dove from the arke of thy soul. The Spirit is res tenera & delicata; if it be grieved, it may say, I will come no more; and if it once withdraw we cannot mourn.