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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.
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.
3. Observe, Gospel-tears are not lost, they are seeds of comfort; while the penitent doth pour out tears, God pours in joy; if thou wouldst be cheerful, (saith Chrysostom) be sad*: Psal. 126.5. They that sow in tears, shall reap in joy. It was the end of Christs anointing and coming into the world, that he might comfort them that mourn: Isa. 61.3. Christ had the oil of gladness poured on him, (as Chrysostom saith) that he might pour it upon the Mourner; well then may the Apostle call it a repentance not to be repented of, 2 Cor. 7.10. A mans drunkenness is to be repented of, his uncleanness is to be repented of; but his repentance is never to be repented of, because it is the inlet to joy: Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted. Here is sweet fruit from a bitter stock: Christ caused the earthen Vessels to be filled ⟨p. 110⟩with water, and then turned the water into wine, John 2.9. So when the eye, that earthen Vessel hath been filled with water brim full, then Christ will turn the water of tears into the wine of joy. Holy mourning saith Saint Basil*, is the seed out of which the flower of eternal joy doth grow.