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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.
3. The comforts of the Spirit are humbling: Lord saith the soul, What am I that I should have a smile from heaven, and that thou shouldest give me a privy seal of thy love? The more water is poured into a Bucket, the lower it descends; the fuller the ship is laden with sweet spices, the lower it sails; the more a Christian is filled with the sweet comforts of the Spirit, the lower he fails in humility; the fuller a Tree is of fruit, the lower the bough hangs; the more full we are of the fruits of the Spirit, joy and peace, Gal. 5.22. the more we bend down in humility. St. Paul a chosen Vessel*, filled with the wine of the Spirit*, did not more abound in joy, than in lowliness of mind. Eph. 3.8. Unto me who am less than the least of all Saints, is this grace given, &c. He who was the chief of the Apostles, calls himself the least of Saints.
3. The comforts of the Spirit are humbling: Lord saith the soul, What am I that I should have a smile from heaven, and that thou shouldest give me a privy seal of thy love? The more water is poured into a Bucket, the lower it descends; the fuller the ship is laden with sweet spices, the lower it sails; the more a Christian is filled with the sweet comforts of the Spirit, the lower he fails in humility; the fuller a Tree is of fruit, the lower the bough hangs; the more full we are of the fruits of the Spirit, joy and peace, Gal. 5.22. the more we bend down in humility. St. Paul a chosen Vessel*, fill'd with the wine of the Spirit*, did not more abound in joy, than in lowliness of mind. Eph. 3.8. Unto me who am less than the least of all Saints, is this grace given, &c. He who was the chief of the Apostles, calls himself the least of Saints.