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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.
3. Hypocrites desires are but desires, they are lazy §3and sluggish; when one excited Lipsius to the study of virtue, saith he, My mind is to it. Prov. 21.25. The desire of the slothful killeth him, for his hands refuse to labour. Many stand as the Carman in the Fable, crying, Help Hercules, when his Wane stuck in the Mud, when he should rather have put his shoulder to the Wheel. Men would be saved, but they will take no pains. Doth he desire water that will not let down the Bucket into the Well? but true desire is quickened into endeavour. Isa. 26.9. With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early; they are the violent take heaven by force, Matth. 12.11. The love-sick Spouse, though she was wounded, and her veil taken away, yet she follows after Christ, Cant. 5.7. Desire is the weight of the soul, which sets it a going; as the Eagle which desires her prey, makes haste to it. Job 39. ult. Where the stain are, there is she; the Eagle hath sharpness of sight to discover her prey, and swiftness of wing to fly to it: So the soul that hungers after righteousness, is carried swiftly to it in the use of all holy Ordinances.
3. Hypocrites desires are but desires, they are lazy §3and sluggish; when one excited Lipsius to the study of vertue, saith he, My mind is to it. Prov. 21.25. The desire of the slothful killeth him, for his hands refuse to labour. Many stand as the Carman in the Fable, crying, Help Hercules, when his Wain stuck in the Mud, when he should rather have put his shoulder to the Wheel. Men would be saved, but they will take no pains. Doth he desire water that will not let down the Bucket into the Well? but true desire is quickned into indeavour.