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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. Gods call to mourning looks for present entertainment, Heb. 3.7, 8. To day if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. A General besieging a garrison, summons it to surrender upon such a day, or he will storm it. Such are Gods summons to repentance, To day if ye will heart his voice; sinners, when Satan hath tempted you to any ⟨p. 103⟩wickedness, you have not said, It is too soon Satan, but have presently embraced his tentation; have you not put the Devil off, and will you put God off?
3. Gods call to mourning looks for present entertainment, Heb. 3.7, 8. To day if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. A General besieging a garrison, summons it to surrender upon such a day, or he will storme it. Such are Gods summons to repentance, To day if ye will heart his voice; sinners, when Satan hath tempted you to any ⟨p. 103⟩wickednesse, you have not said, It is too soone Satan, but have presently embraced his tentation; have you not put the Devil off, and will you put God off?
4. It is a foolish thing to adjourn, and put off mourning for sin; for 1. The longer you put off holy mourning, the harder you will find the work when you come to it. A bone that is out of joint, is easier set at first than if you let it go longer. A disease taken in time is sooner cured than if it be let alone till it comes to a Paroxysm*. You may easily wade over the waters when they are low, if you stay till they are risen, they will be beyond your depth. O sinner, the more treasons thou committest, the more dost thou incense heaven against thee, and the harder it will be to get thy pardon; the longer thou spinnest out the time of thy sinning, the more work thou makest for repentance. 2. To adjourn, and put off mourning for sin, is folly, in respect of the uncertainty of life; how doth the procrastinating sinner know that he shall live to be old? What is your life? it is but a vapour,