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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.
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, Rom. 6.23. What was it for Adam to pluck an Apple? but that lost him his crown. 'Tis not with sin as it is with diseases, some are mortal, some not mortal; the least sin without repentance, will be a lock and bolt to shut men out of heaven.
2. Every sinne is sinful, therefore damnable: a Pen-knife or Stilletto makes but a little wound, but either of them may kill as well as a greater weapon: there's death and hell in every sinne, Rom. 6.23. What was it for Adam to pluck an Apple? but that lost him his crown. 'Tis not with sinne as it is with diseases, some are mortal, some not mortal; the least sinne without repentance, will be a lock and bolt to shut men out of heaven.
3. View sin in the red glass of Christs sufferings; the least sin cost the price of blood. Would you take a a true prospect of sin, go to Golgotha. Jesus Christ was fain to veil his glory, and lose his joy, and pour out his soul ⟨p. 102⟩an offering for the least sin; read the greatness of thy sin in the deepness of Christs wounds. Let not Satan cast such a mist before your eyes, that you cannot see sin in its right colours. Remember, not only great rivers fall into the Sea, but little brooks; not only great sins carry men to hell, but lesser.
3. View sinne in the red glasse of Christs sufferings; the least sinne cost the price of blood. Would you take a a true prospect of sinne, go to Golgotha. Jesus Christ was fain to vail his glory, and lose his joy, and pour out his soul ⟨p. 102⟩