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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. The Spirit comforts immediately; The Spirit by a more direct act presents God to the soul as reconciled; it sheds his love abroad in the heart, from whence flows infinite joy, Rom. 5.5. The Spirit secretly whispers Pardon for sin, and the sight of a Pardon dilates the heart with joy, Matth. 9.2. Be of good cheer, thy sins are forgiven thee.
2. The Spirit comforts immediatly; The Spirit by a more direct act presents God to the soul as reconciled; it sheds his love abroad in the heart, from whence flows infinite joy, Rom. 5.5. The Spirit secretly whispers Pardon for sin, and the sight of a Pardon dilates the heart with joy, Matth. 9.2. Be of good chear, thy sinnes are forgiven thee.
That I may speak more fully to this point, I shall show ⟨p. 112⟩you the qualifications and excellencies of these comforts which God gives his mourners. 1. These comforts are real comforts; the Spirit of God cannot witness to that which is untrue. There are many in this age do pretend to comfort, but their comforts are mere impostures; the body may as well swell with wind, as with flesh: a man may as well be swelled with false, as true comforts*; The comforts of the Saints are certain, they have the seal of the Spirit set to them. Ephes. 1.13. 2 Cor. 1.22. A seal is for confirmation; when a Deed is sealed, it is firm, and unquestionable. When a Christian hath the seal of the Spirit stamped upon his heart, now he is confirmed in the love of God.