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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.
'Tis a great question whether the sick bed penitent doth not mourn because he can keep his sins no longer. All which considered, may make men take heed of running their souls upon such a desperate hazard as to put all their work for heaven upon the last hour.
Hindr. 8 8. Delay of the execution of justice. Eccles. 8.11. Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. God forbears punishing, therefore men forbear repenting. He doth not smite upon their back by correction, therefore they do not smite upon their thigh by humiliation, Jer. 31.19. The sinner thinks thus, God hath spared me all this while, he hath eked out patience into long-suffering; sure he will not punish, Psal. 10.11. He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten. God sometimes in infinite patience adjourns his judgements, and puts off the Sessions awhile longer; he is not willing to punish, 2 Pet. 3.9. The Bee naturally gives honey, but stings only when it is angered. The Lord would have men make their peace with him, Isa. 27.5. God is not like an hasty creditor, that requires the debt, and will give no time for the payment; he is not only gracious, but waits to be gracious*. Isa. 30.18. but God by his patience would bribe sinners to repentance; but alas how is this patience abused; Gods ⟨p. 105⟩