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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.
1I Proceed now to the second part of the text, a Promise annexed, [Greek or Hebrew], they shall be filled. A Christians fighting with sin is not like one that beats the air, 1 Cor. 9.26. and his hungering after righteousness is not like one that sucks in only air, Blessed are they that hunger, for they shall be filled.
1I Proceed now to the second part of the text, a Promise annexed, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, they shall be filled. A Christians fighting with sin is not like one that beats the aire, 1 Cor. 9.26. and his hungring after righteousnesse is not like one that sucks in only ayre, Blessed are they that hunger, for they shall be filled.
- 12. The Promise annexed.
Doctr. Doctr. Those that hunger after righteousness shall be filled; God never bids us seek him in vain*, here is an honey-comb dropping into the mouths of the hungry, they shall be filled. Luke 1.53. He hath filled the hungry with good things. Psal. 109.7. He satisfieth the longing soul, God will not let us lose our longing; here is the excellency of righteousness above all things; a man may hunger after the world, and not be filled; the world is fading, not ⟨p. 173⟩filling; Cast three Worlds into the heart, yet the heart is not full; but righteousness is a filling thing, nay, it so fills, as it satisfies; a man may be filled, and not satisfied; a sinner may take his fill of sin, but that is a sad filling, it is far from satisfaction.