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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.
Answ. 2. If thy desires after righteousness seem to Answ. 2 ⟨p. 168⟩be weak and languid, yet a Christian may sometimes take a measure of his spiritual estate as well by the judgement, as by the affections. What is that thou esteemest most in thy judgment? Is it Christ and Grace? This is a good evidence for heaven; it was a sign Saint Paul did bear entire love to Christ, because he esteemed this Pearl above all; he counted other things [Greek or Hebrew], but dung, that he might win Christ, Phil. 3.8.
Answ. 2. If thy desires after righteousnesse seeme to Answ. 2 ⟨p. 168⟩be weak and languid, yet a Christian may sometimes take a measure of his spiritual estate as well by the judgement, as by the affections. What is that thou esteemest most in thy judgment? Is it Christ and Grace? This is a good evidence for heaven; it was a signe Saint Paul did beare entire love to Christ, because he esteem'd this Pearl above all; he counted other things 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, but dung, that he might win Christ, Phil. 3.8.
Object. 3 Object. 3. But saith a child of God, That which much eclipseth my comfort, is, I have not that hunger which once I had. Time was I did hunger after a Sabbath, because then the Manna fell; I called the Sabbath a delight; I remember the time when I did hunger after the body and blood of the Lord; I came to a Sacrament as an hungry man to a Feast; but now it is otherwise with me, I have not those hungrings as formerly.