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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.
10. The comforts of the Spirit are abiding comforts; as they abound in us, so they abide with us. John 14.16. He shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever. Worldly comforts are still upon the wing, ready to fly; they are like a land-flood, or a flash of lightning.
10. The comforts of the Spirit are abiding comforts; as they abound in us, so they abide with us. John 14.16. He shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever. Worldly comforts are still upon the wing, ready to flie; they are like a land-flood, or a flash of lightning.
1— Saepe fluunt imo sic quoque lapsa sinu. —
- 1Mart.
All things here are [Greek or Hebrew]; but the comforts with which God feeds his Mourners, are immortal: 2 Thes. 2.16. Who hath loved us, and hath given us [Greek or Hebrew], everlasting consolation. Though a Christian hath not always a full beam of comfort, yet he hath a dawning of it in his soul; he hath still a ground of hope, and a root of joy; there is that within him which bears up his heart, and which he would not on any terms part with.