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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.
4. These comforts which God gives his mourners are holy comforts; they are called the comforts of the holy Ghost, Acts 9.31. Every thing propagates in its own kind*; the holy Ghost can no more produce impure joys in the soul, than the Sun can produce darkness; he who hath the comforts of the Spirit, looks upon himself as a person engaged to do God more service; Hath the Lord looked upon me with a smiling face? I can never pray enough, I can never love God enough. The comforts of the Spirit raise in the heart an holy antipathy against sin; the Dove hates every feather that hath grown upon the Hawk: so there is an hatred ⟨p. 117⟩of every motion, and temptation to evil; he who hath a principle of life in him, opposeth every thing that would destroy life, he hates poison; so he that hath the comforts of the Spirit living in him, sets himself against those sins which would murder his comforts; divine comforts give the soul more acquaintance with God, 1 John 1.4. Our fellowship is with the Father and his Son Jesus.
4. These comforts which God gives his mourners are holy comforts; they are call'd the comforts of the holy Ghost, Acts 9.31. Every thing propagates in its own kind*; the holy Ghost can no more produce impure joys in the soul, than the Sun can prduce darknesse; he who hath the comforts of the Spirit, looks upon himself as a person engaged to do God more service; Hath the Lord looked upon me with a smiling face? I can never pray enough, I can never love God enough. The comforts of the Spirit raise in the heart an holy antipathy against sin; the Dove hates every feather that hath grown upon the Hawke: so there is an hatred ⟨p. 117⟩of every motion, and temptation to evil; he who hath a principle of life in him, opposeth every thing that would destroy life, he hates poison; so he that hath the comforts of the Spirit living in him, sets himself against those sins which would murder his comforts; divine comforts give the soul more acquaintance with God,