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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. They never felt any emptiness, they are full of §1their own righteousness. Rom. 10.3. Now the full stomach loathes the honey-comb; this was Laodicea's disease, she was full, and had no stomach either to Christs gold or eye-salve, Rev. 3.17. When men are filled with pride, this flatuous distemper hinders holy longings; as when the stomach is full of wind, it spoils the appetite; none so empty of grace, as he that thinks he is full; he hath most need of righteousness, that doth least want it.
1. They never felt any emptiness, they are full of §1their own righteousness. Rom. 10.3. Now the full stomack loaths the honey-comb; this was Laodicea's disease, she was full, and had no stomack either to Christs gold or eye-salve, Rev. 3.17. When men are filled with pride, this flatuous distemper hinders holy longings; as when the stomack is full of wind, it spoils the appetite; none so empty of grace, as he that thinks he is full; he hath most need of righteousness, that doth least want it.
2. That men do not hunger after righteousness, appears,§2 because they can make a shift well enough to be without it. If they have oil in the Cruse, the world coming in, they are well content; grace is a commodity that is least missed; you shall hear men complain they want health, they want Trading, but never complain they want Righteousness; if men lose a meal or two, they think themselves half undone; but they can stay away from Ordinances, which are the Conduits of grace: Do they hunger after righteousness, who are satisfied without it? nay, who desire to be excused from feeding upon the Gospel-banquet