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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.
5. Hypocrites desires are flashy and transient; they §5are quickly gone, like the wind that stays not long in one corner; or like an hot fit, which is soon over. While the Hypocrite is under legal terror, or in affliction, he hath some good desires, but the hot fit is soon over; his goodness like a fiery Comet, soon spends and evaporates; but true desire is constant. It is observable, the Greek word in the text is in the participle [Greek or Hebrew], blessed are they that are hungering; though they have righteousness, yet they are still hungering after more. Hypocrites desire is like the motion of a Watch which is quickly down. The desire of a godly man is like the beating of the Pulse, which lasts as long as life, Psal. 119.20. My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath to thy judgements. And that we might not think this pang of desire would soon be over, he adds [Greek or Hebrew] at all times. Davids desire after God was not an high colour in a fit, but the constant complexion of his soul. In the Temple the fire was not to go out by night, Levit. 6.13. The fire shall ever be burning upon the Altar. There was saith Cyril, a mystery in it, to show that we must be ever burning in holy affections and desires.
5. Hypocrites desires are flashy and transient; they §5are quickly gone, like the wind that stays not long in one corner; or like an hot fit, which is soon over. While the Hypocrite is under legal terror, or in affliction, he hath some good desires, but the hot fit is soone over; his goodnesse like a fiery Comet, soone spends and evaporates; but true desire is constant. It is observable, the Greek word in the text is in the participle 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, blessed are they that are hungring; though they have righteousness, yet they are still hungring after more. Hypocrites desire is like the motion of a Watch which is quickly down. The desire of a godly man is like the beating of the Pulse, which lasts as long as life, Psal. 119.20. My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath to thy judgements. And that we might not think this pang of desire would soone be over, he adds at all times. Davids desire after God was not an high colour in a fit, but the constant complexion of his soul. In the Temple the fire was not to go out by night,