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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.
1. Submission to his Will. 2. Flexibleness to his Word.
1. Submission to Gods Will; when we carry our selves calmly without swelling or murmuring under the dispensations of Providence. 1 Sam. 3.18. It is the Lord, let him do what seemeth him good. The meek-spirited Christian saith thus, Let God do what he will with me, let him carve out what condition he please, I will submit; God sees what is best for me, whether a fertile soil or a barren; let him chequer his work as he please, it sufficeth God hath done it; it was an unmeek spirit in the Prophet to struggle with God, Jonah 4.9. I do well to be angry to the death.
2. Flexibleness to Gods Word: When we are willing to let the Word bear sway in our souls, and become pliable to all its Laws and Maxims; he is spiritually meek who conforms himself to the mind of God, and doth not quarrel with the instructions of the Word, but the corruptions of his heart. Cornelius his speech to Peter did savour of a meek spirit. Acts 10.33. Now therefore we are all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God. How happy is it when the Word which comes with Majesty, is received with meekness*!