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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. Some hearers have bad memories, Jam. 1.25. Their memories are like leaking Vessels; all the precious wine of holy Doctrine that is poured in, runs out presently: Ministers cannot by study find a truth so fast as others can lose it; if the meat doth not stay in the stomach, it can never breed good blood; if a truth delivered doth not ⟨p. 10⟩stay in the memory, we can never be as the Apostle saith, Nourished up in the words of faith, 1 Tim. 4.6. How often doth the Devil, that Fowl of the Air, pick up the good seed that is sown*! If Thieves steal away peoples money, they tell every one, and make their complaint they have been Robbed; but there is a worse Thief they are not aware of! How many Sermons hath the Devil stolen from them! how many truths have they been robbed of, which might have been so many death-bed cordials! now if the Word preached slides so fast out of the memory, Ministers had need the oftener go up the preaching Mount, that at last some truth may abide, and be as a nail fastened by the Masters of Assemblies.
1. Some hearers have bad memories, Jam. 1.25. Their memories are like leaking Vessels; all the precious wine of holy Doctrine that is poured in, runs out presently: Ministers cannot by study find a truth so fast as others can lose it; if the meat doth not stay in the stomack, it can never breed good blood; if a truth delivered doth not ⟨p. 10⟩stay in the memory, we can never be as the Apostle saith, Nourished up in the words of faith, 1 Tim. 4.6. How often doth the Divel, that Fowle of the Aire, pick up the good seed that is sown*! If Thieves steal away peoples money, they tell every one, and make their complaint they have been Robbed; but there is a worse Thief they are not aware of! How many Sermons hath the Devil stollen from them! how many truths have they been robbed of, which might have been so many death-bed cordials! now if the Word preached slides so fast out of the memory, Ministers had need the oftner go up the preaching Mount, that at last some truth may abide, and be as a nail fastened by the Masters of Assemblies.