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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.
2. Observe that God keeps his best wine till last; first, he prescribes mourning for sin, and then sets abroach the wine of consolation; the Devil doth quite contrary; he shows the best first, and keeps the worst till last: First he shows the wine sparkling in the glass, then comes the biting of the serpent, Prov. 23.32. Satan sets his dainty dishes before men; he presents sin to them coloured with beauty, sweetened with pleasure, silvered with profit, and then afterwards the sad reckoning is brought in. He showed Judas first the silver bait, and then struck him with the hook: This is the reason why sin hath so many followers, because it shows the best first; first the golden Crowns, and then come the Lyons teeth, Rev. 9.7, 8.
2. Observe that God keeps his best wine till last; first, he prescribes mourning for sin, and then sets abroach the wine of consolation; the Divel doth quite contrary; he shews the best first, and keeps the worst till last: First he shews the wine sparkling in the glass, then comes the biting of the serpent, Prov. 23.32. Satan sets his dainty dishes before men; he presents sin to them coloured with beauty, sweetned with pleasure, silvered with profit, and then afterwards the sad reckoning is brought in. He shewed Judas first the silver bait, and then struck him with the hook: This is the reason why sin hath so many followers, because it shews the best first; first the golden Crowns, and then come the Lyons teeth, Rev. 9.7, 8.
But God shows the worst first; first he prescribes a bitter potion, and then brings a cordial, they shall be comforted.
But God shews the worst first; first he prescribes a bitter potion, and then brings a cordial, they shall be comforted.