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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. Gods Mourners sometimes want comfort through discontent and peevishness. David makes his disquiet the cause of his sadness. Psal. 43.5. Why art thou cast down O my soul? why art thou disquieted within me? A disquieted heart like a rough Sea, is not easily calmed; 'tis hard to make a troubled spirit receive comfort; this ⟨p. 123⟩disquiet ariseth from various causes; sometimes from outward sorrow and melancholy; sometimes from a kind of envy; Gods people are troubled to see others have comfort, and they want it; and now in a pet they refuse comfort, and like a froward child, put away the breast. Psal. 77.2. My soul refused to be comforted. Indeed a disquieted spirit is no more fit for comfort, than a distracted man is fit for counsel; and whence is the Mourners discontent, but pride? as if God had not dealt well with him in stopping the influences of comfort; O Christian, thy spirit must be more humbled and broken before God empty out his golden oil of joy.
2. Gods Mourners sometimes want comfort through discontent and peevishness. David makes his disquiet the cause of his sadness. Psal. 43.5. Why art thou cast down O my soul? why art thou disquieted within me? A disquieted heart like a rough Sea, is not easily calmed; 'tis hard to make a troubled spirit receive comfort; this ⟨p. 123⟩disquiet ariseth from various causes; sometimes from outward sorrow and melancholy; sometimes from a kind of envy; Gods people are troubled to see others have comfort, and they want it; and now in a pet they refuse comfort, and like a froward child, put away the breast. Psal. 77.2. My soul refused to be comforted. Indeed a disquieted spirit is no more fit for comfort, than a distracted man is fit for counsel; and whence is the Mourners discontent, but pride? as if God had not dealt well with him in stopping the influences of comfort; O Christian, thy spirit must be more humbled and broken before God empty out his golden oyle of joy.