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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.
SECT. 4.
Showing the signs of spiritual hunger.
Shewing the signs of spiritual hunger.
Use 3 LET us put our selves upon a trial whether we hunger and thirst after righteousness;1 I shall give you five signs by which you may judge of this hunger.
- 1Trial.
Sign. 1 1. Hunger is a painful thing. Esau, when he was returned from Hunting, was almost dead with hunger: Gen. 25.32. and Psal. 107.5. Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them: So a man that hungers after righteousness, is in anguish of soul, and ready to faint away for it; he finds a want of Christ and grace, he is distressed and in pain till he hath his spiritual hunger stilled and allayed.