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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.
CHAP. X.
Showing some helps to mourning.
Shewing some helps to mourning.
Having removed the obstructions, let me in the last place propound some helps to holy mourning.
HAving removed the obstructions, let me in the last place propound some helps to holy mourning.
1. Set Davids prospect continually before you. Psal. 51.4. My sin is ever before me. David, that he might be a mourner, kept his eye still upon sin; See what sin is, and then tell me if there be not enough in it to draw forth tears. I know not what name to give it bad enough; one calls it the Devils excrement; sin is malorum colluvies, it is a complication of all evil; it is the spirits of mischief distilled. 1. Sin dishonours God; it denies Gods Omniscience, it derides his Patience, it distrusts his Faithfulness; sin tramples upon Gods Law, slights his Love, grieves his Spirit. 2. Sin wrongs us. 1. Sin shames us: