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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. The Ears of many of our hearers are stopped with earth; I mean, the cares of the world, that the Word preached will not enter; according to that in the Parable, Hearing they hear not, Matth. 13.13. We read of Saul, his eyes were open, yet he saw no man, Acts 9.8. A strange Paradox! and is it not as strange that mens ears should be open, yet in hearing hear not*? They mind not what is said: Ezek. 33.31. They sit before thee as my people sitteth, but their heart goeth after their covetousness. Many sit and stare the Minister in the face, yet scarce know a word he saith; they are thinking of their wares and drugs, and are often casting up accounts in the Church. If a man be in a Mill, though you speak never so loud to him, he doth not hear you for the noise of the Mill. We preach to men about matters of salvation, but the Mill of worldly business makes such a noise, that they cannot hear; in hearing they hear not. It being thus, Ministers who are called sons of thunder, had need often ascend the Mount, and lift up their voice like a Trumpet*; that the deaf ear may be syringed and unstopped, and may hear what the Spirit saith to the Churches, Revel. 2.7.
2. The Ears of many of our hearers are stop't with earth; I mean, the cares of the world, that the Word preached will not enter; according to that in the Parable, Hearing they hear not, Matth. 13.13. We read of Saul, his eyes were open, yet he saw no man, Acts 9.8. A strange Paradox! and is it not as strange that mens ears should be open, yet in hearing hear not*? They mind not what is said: