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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.
Use. Use. Behold the Mourners privilege, he shall be comforted. David who was the great Mourner of Israel, was the sweet singer of Israel. The weeping Dove shall ⟨p. 121⟩be covered with the golden feathers of comfort; O how rare and superlative are these comforts!
Use. Use. Behold the Mourners priviledge, he shall be comforted. David who was the great Mourner of Israel, was the sweet singer of Israel. The weeping Dove shall ⟨p. 121⟩be covered with the golden feathers of comfort; O how rare and superlative are these comforts!
Quest. But may not Gods Mourners want these comforts?
Answ. Spiritual Mourners have a title to these comforts, yet they may sometimes want them. God is a free Agent, he will have the timing of our comforts; he hath [Greek or Hebrew], a self-freedom, to do what he will. The holy one of Israel will not be limited, he will reserve his Prerogative to give or suspend comfort, pro libitu; and if we are awhile without comfort, we must not quarrel with his dispensations; for as the Mariner is not to wrangle with Providence, because the wind blows out of the East, when he desires it to blow out of the West; nor is the Husbandman to murmur, when God stops the bottles of heaven in time of drought; so neither is any man to dispute or quarrel with God, when he stops the sweet influence of comfort, but ought rather to acquiesce in his sacred will.