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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.
3. The Mourner is without comfort, for want of applying the promises; he looks at that sin which may humble him, but not at that Word which may comfort him. The Mourners eyes are so full of tears that he cannot see the promise; the virtue and comfort of a medicine is in the applying; when the promises are applied by faith, they bring comfort: Hosea 2.19. Isa. 49.15, 16. Faith milks the breast of a promise. That Satan may hinder us of comfort it is his policy, either to keep the promise from us, that we may not know it, or to keep us from the promise that we may not apply it. Never a promise in the Bible, but belongs to the Mourner, had he but the skill and dexterity of faith to lay hold on it.
3. The Mourner is without comfort, for want of applying the promises; he looks at that sin which may humble him, but not at that Word which may comfort him. The Mourners eyes are so full of tears that he cannot see the promise; the vertue and comfort of a medicine is in the applying; when the promises are applied by faith, they bring comfort: Hosea 2.19. Isa. 49.15, 16. Faith milks the breast of a promise. That Satan may hinder us of comfort it is his policy, either to keep the promise from us, that we may not know it, or to keep us from the promise that we may not apply it. Never a promise in the Bible, but belongs to the Mourner, had he but the skill and dexterity of faith to lay hold on it.
4. The Mourner may want comfort, through too much earthly-mindedness; by feeding immoderately on earthly comforts, we miss of heavenly comforts. Isa. 57.17. For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and I hid me. The earth puts out the fire; earthliness extinguisheth the flame of divine joy in the soul; an Eclipse is per interpositionem corporis Lunaris, when the Moon, which is a dense body, comes between; the Moon is an Emblem of the world: