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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.
4. It appears men have no spiritual hunger, because they refuse their food; Christ and Grace are offered, nay pressed upon them, but they put away salvation from them, as the froward child puts away the breast, Psal. 81.11. Acts 13.46. Such are your Fanatics and Enthusiasts, who put away the blessed Ordinances, and pretend Revelations, That is a strange Revelation, that tells a man he may live without food; these prefer Husks before Manna; they live upon Aery Notions, being fed by the Prince of the Air.
4. It appears men have no spiritual hunger, because they refuse their food; Christ and Grace are offered, nay pressed upon them, but they put away salvation from them, as the froward child puts away the breast, Psal. 81.11. Acts 13.46. Such are your Phanaticks and Enthusiasts, who put away the blessed Ordinances, and pretend Revelations, That is a strange Revelation, that tells a man he may live without food; these prefer Husks before Manna; they live upon Aery Notions, being fed by the Prince of the Ayre.
5. 'Tis a sign they have none of this spiritual hunger, who delight more in the garnishing of the dish, than in food; these are they who look more after Elegance and notion in Preaching, than solid matter; it argues either a wanton palate, or a surfeited stomach to feed on salads and kickshaws, neglecting wholesome food. 1 Tim. 6.3, 4. If any man consent not to wholesome words, he is proud, knowing nothing, &c. The plainest truth hath its beauty; they have no spiritual hunger, that desire only to feast their fancy; of such the Prophet speaks,