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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. 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⟩an offering for the least sinne; read the greatnesse of thy sin in the deepnesse 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 sinnes carry men to hell, but lesser.
Hindr. 7 7. Procrastination; or an opinion it is too soon yet to tune the penitential string. When the Lamp is almost out, the strength exhausted, and old age comes on, then mourning for sin will be in season, but it is too soon yet. That I may show how pernicious this opinion is, and that I may roll away this stone from the mouth of the Well, that so the waters of repentance may be drawn forth, let me propose these four serious and weighty considerations.
Hindr. 7 7. Procrastination; or an opinion it is too soone yet to tune the penitential string. When the Lamp is almost out, the strength exhausted, and old age comes on, then mourning for sinne will be in season, but it is too soone yet. That I may shew how pernicious this opinion is, and that I may rowle away this stone from the mouth of the Well, that so the waters of repentance may be drawn forth, let me propose these four serious and weighty considerations.