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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.
Those who brag of comfort, but were never yet convinced, nor broken for sin, have cause to suspect their comfort to be a delusion of Satan. It is like a mad mans joy, who fancies himself to be King, but it may be said of his laughter, it is mad, Eccles. 2.2. The seed which wanted depth of earth, withered, Matth. 13. that comfort which wants depth of earth, deep humiliation and conviction, will soon wither and come to nothing.
Those who brag of comfort, but were never yet convinced, nor broken for sin, have cause to suspect their comfort to be a delusion of Satan. It is like a mad mans joy, who fancies himself to be King, but it may be said of his laughter, it is mad, Eccles. 2.2. The seed which wanted depth of earth, withered, Matth. 13. that comfort which wants depth of earth, deep humiliation and conviction, will soone wither and come to nothing.
2. The Spirit of God is a sanctifying, before a comforting Spirit; as Gods Spirit is called the Comforter, so he is called a spirit of grace, Zach. 12.10. Grace is the work of the Spirit, Comfort is the seal of the Spirit; the work of the Spirit goes before the seal; the graces of the spirit are compared to water, Isa. 44.3. and the comforts of the spirit are compared to oil, Isa. 61.1. First, God pours in the water of the spirit, and then comes the oil of gladness. The oil (in this sense) runs above the water; Hereby we shall know whether our comforts are true and genuine. Some talk of the comforting spirit, who never