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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. 5.
Comfort to such as do hunger, wherein is shown the differences of hunger.
Comfort to such as do hunger, wherein is shewn the differences of hunger.
IT may serve to comfort the hearts of those who do Use 4 hunger and thirst after righteousness;1 I doubt not but •t is the grief of many a good heart, that he cannot be ⟨p. 194⟩more holy, that he cannot serve God better. Blessed are they that hunger. Though thou hast not so much righteousness as thou wouldst, yet thou art blessed, because thou hungerest after it; desire is the best discovery of a Christian; actions may be counterfeit; a man may do a good action for a bad end; so did Jehu. Actions may be compulsory; a man may be forced to do that which is good, but not to will that which is good; therefore we are to cherish good desires, and to bless God for them; oftentimes a child of God hath nothing to show for himself but desires: Nehem. 1.11. Thy servants who desire to fear thy Name. These hungrings after righteousness proceed from love; a man doth not desire that which he doth not love; if thou didst not love Christ, thou couldst not hunger after him.
IT may serve to comfort the hearts of those who do Use 4 hunger and thirst after righteousness;