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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.
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. Prov. 14 14. The back-slider in heart shall be filled with his own ways; he shall have his belly full of sin, he shall have enough of it; but this is not a filling to satisfaction, this is such a filling as the damned in hell have, they shall be full of the fury of the Lord: But he that hungers after righteousness, shall be satisfyingly filled. Jerem. 31.14. My people shall be satisfied with goodness. Psal. 63.3. My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow. Joseph first opened the mouth of the Sacks, and then filled them with corn, and put money in them, Gen. 42.25. So God first opens the mouth of the soul with desire, and then fills it with good things, Psal. 81.10. — For the illustration of this, consider these three things.
Doctr. Doctr. Those that hunger after righteousnesse shall be filled; God never bids us seek him in vain*