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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.
6. A conceit of the smallness of sin, Gen. 19.20. Is Hindr. 6 it not a little one? the Devil holds the small end of the Perspective-glass to sinners. To fancy sin less than it is, is very dangerous: an opinion of the littleness of sin keeps us from the use of means. Who will be earnest for a Physician that thinks it is but a trivial disease? and who will seek to God with a penitent heart for mercy, that thinks sin is but a slight thing? But to take off this wrong conceit about sin, and that we may look upon it with watery eyes: consider,
6. A conceit of the smalnesse of sinne, Gen. 19.20. Is Hindr. 6 it not a little one? the Devil holds the small end of the Perspective-glasse to sinners. To fancy sinne lesse than it is, is very dangerous: an opinion of the littlenesse of sinne keeps us from the use of means. Who will be earnest for a Physitian that thinks it is but a trivial disease? and who will seek to God with a penitent heart for mercy, that thinks sinne is but a slight thing? But to take off this wrong conceit about sinne, and that we may look upon it with watry eyes: consider,
1. Sin cannot be little, because it is against the Majesty of heaven; there is no treason small, it being against the Kings person.
1. Sinne cannot be little, because it is against the Majesty of heaven; there is no treason small, it being against the Kings person.
2. Every sin is sinful, therefore damnable: a Pen-knife or Stiletto makes but a little wound, but either of them may kill as well as a greater weapon: there's death and hell in every sin,