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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.
2. If we do not thirst here, we shall thirst when it is too late; if we do not thirst as David did, Psal. 42.2. my soul thirsteth for God; we shall thirst as Dives did for a drop of water, Luke 16.24. They who thirst not for righteousness, shall be in perpetual hunger and thirst; they shall thirst for mercy, but no mercy to be had. Heat increaseth thirst; when men shall burn in hell, and be scorched with the flames of Gods wrath, this heat will increase their thirst for mercy, but there will be nothing to allay their thirst. O is it not better to thirst for righteousness while it is to be had, than to thirst for mercy when there is none to be had? Sinners, the time is shortly coming when the draw-bridge of mercy will be quite pulled up.
2. If we do not thirst here, we shall thirst when it is too late; if we do not thirst as David did, Psal. 42.2. my soul thirsteth for God; we shall thirst as Dives did for a drop of water, Luke 16.24. They who thirst not for righteousnesse, shall be in perpetual hunger and thirst; they shall thirst for mercy, but no mercy to be had. Heat encreaseth thirst; when men shall burn in hell, and be scorch'd with the flames of Gods wrath, this heat will encrease their thirst for mercy, but there will be nothing to allay their thirst. O is it not better to thirst for righteousnesse while it is to be had, than to thirst for mercy when there is none to be had? Sinners, the time is shortly coming when the draw-bridge of mercy will be quite pulled up.
I shall next briefly prescribe some helps to spiritual hunger.