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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.
8. Another argument to cool the intemperate heat Motive. 8 of our curst hearts, is to consider that all the injuries and unkind usages we meet with from the world, do not fall out by chance, but are disposed of by the all-wise God for our good; many are like the foolish Cur that snarls at the stone, never looking to the hand that threw it; or like the Horse, who being spurred by the rider, bites the snaffle: did we look higher than instruments, our hearts would grow meek and calm. David looked beyond Shimei's rage, 2 Sam. 16.11. Let him curse, for the Lord hath bidden him; What wisdom were it for Christians to see the hand of God in all the barbarisms and incivilities of men! Job eyed God in his affliction, and that meekened his spirit, The Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord, Job 1.21. He doth not say the ⟨p. 150⟩Chaldeans have taken away, but the Lord hath taken away; what made Christ so meek in his sufferings! he did not look at Judas or Pilate, but at his father, John 18.11. The Cup which my Father hath given me; when wicked men do revile, and injure us, they are but Gods Executioners; who is angry with the executioner?
8. Another argument to coole the intemperate heat Motive. 8 of our curst hearts, is to consider that all the injuries and unkind usages we meet with from the world, do not fall out by chance, but are disposed of by the all-wise God for our good; many are like the foolish Curre that snarles at the stone, never looking to the hand that threw it; or like the Horse, who being spurred by the rider, bites the snafflle: did we look higher than instruments, our hearts would grow meek and calm. David looked beyond Shimei's rage, 2 Sam. 16.11. Let him curse, for the Lord hath bidden him; What wisdome were it for Christians to see the hand of God in all the barbarismes and incivilities of men! Job eyed God in his affliction, and that meekned his spirit, The Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord,