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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.
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.
Sign. 2 2. Hunger is satisfied with nothing but food; bring an hungry man flowers, music, tell him pleasant stories, nothing will content him but food. Shall I dye for thirst? saith Sampson, Judg. 15.18. So a man that hungers and thirsts after righteousness, saith, Give me Christ, or I dye; Lord, What wilt thou give me seeing I go Christless? what though I have parts, wealth, honour and esteem in the world? all is nothing without Christ; Show me the Lord, and it sufficeth. Let me have Christ to clothe me, Christ to feed me, Christ to intercede for me; while the soul is Christless, it is restless; nothing but the water-springs of Christs blood can quench its thirst.
Sign. 2 2. Hunger is satisfied with nothing but food; bring an hungry man flowres, musick, tell him pleasant stories, nothing will content him but food. Shall I dye for thirst? saith Sampson, Judg. 15.18. So a man that hungers and thirsts after righteousness, saith, Give me Christ, or I dye; Lord, What wilt thou give me seeing I go Christless? what though I have parts, wealth, honour and esteem in the world? all is nothing without Christ; Shew me the Lord, and it sufficeth. Let me have Christ to cloath me, Christ to feed me, Christ to intercede for me; while the soul is Christless, it is restless; nothing but the water-springs of Christs blood can quench its thirst.