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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.
Having already presented to your view the dark side of the Text, I shall now show you the light side, they shall be comforted.
HAving already presented to your view the dark side of the Text, I shall now shew you the light side, they shall be comforted.
Where observe, 1. Mourning goes before comfort; as the lancing of a wound precedes the cure; the Antinomian talks of comfort, but cries down mourning for sin; he is like a foolish Patient, who having a Pill prescribed him, licks the sugar, but throws away the Pill. The Libertine is all for joy and comfort, he licks the sugar, but throws away the bitter Pill of Repentance; if ever we have true comfort, we must have it in Gods way and method; sorrow for sin ushers in joy. Isa. 57. I will restore comfort to him, and to his ⟨p. 109⟩Mourners. That is the true Sun-shine of joy which comes after a shower of tears; we may as well expect a crop without seed, as comfort without Gospel-mourning.
Where observe, 1. Mourning goes before comfort; as the launcing of a wound precedes the cure; the Antinomian talks of comfort, but cries down mourning for sin; he is like a foolish Patient, who having a Pill prescribed him, licks the sugar, but throws away the Pill. The Libertine is all for joy and comfort, he licks the sugar, but throws away the bitter Pill of Repentance; if ever we have true comfort, we must have it in Gods way and method; sorrow for sin ushers in joy. Isa. 57. I will restore comfort to him, and to his ⟨p. 109⟩Mourners. That is the true Sun-shine of joy which comes after a showre of tears; we may as well expect a crop without seed, as comfort without Gospel-mourning.