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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.
2. That Gods Mourners want comfort, it is most frequently in regard of themselves.
1. Through mistake, which is two-fold. 1. They go not to the right spring for comfort; they go to their tears, when they should go to Christs blood; it is a kind of Idolatry to make our tears the ground of comfort; Mourning is not meritorious; it is the way to joy, not the cause. Jacob got the blessing in the garments of his elder brother; true comfort flows out of Christs sides; our tears are stained, till they are washed in the blood of Christ. John 16. ult. In me peace. 2. Mistake is, that Mourners are privileged persons, and may take more liberty; they may slacken the strings of duty, and let loose the reins to sin: Christ hath indeed purchased a liberty for his people, but an holy liberty; not a liberty for sin, but from sin; 1 Pet. 2.16. Ye are a Royal Priesthood, a peculiar people; ye are not in a state of slavery, but Royalty: What follows? do not make Christian liberty a cloak for sin. Ver. 16. As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness. If we quench the sanctifying Spirit, God will quench the comforting Spirit; sin is compared to a cloud, Isa. 44.22. This cloud intercepts the light of Gods countenance.
1. Through mistake, which is two-fold. 1. They go not to the right spring for comfort; they go to their tears, when they should go to Christs blood; it is a kind of Idolatry to make our tears the ground of comfort; Mourning is not meritorious; it is the way to joy, not the cause. Jacob got the blessing in the garments of his elder brother; true comfort flows out of Christs sides; our tears are stained, till they are washed in the blood of Christ. John 16. ult. In me peace. 2. Mistake is, that Mourners are priviledged persons, and may take more liberty; they may slacken the strings of duty, and let loose the reins to sin: Christ hath indeed purchased a liberty for his people, but an holy liberty; not a liberty for sin, but from sin;