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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.
1. God will fill the hungry soul out of his tender compassion; he knows else the Spirit would fail before him, and the soul which he hath made, Isa. 57.16. If the hungry man be not satisfied with food, he dyes; God hath more bowels than to suffer an hungry soul to be famished; when the Multitude had nothing to eat, Christ was moved with compassion, and he wrought a miracle for their supply: Matth. 15.32. Much more will he compassionate such as hunger and thirst after righteousness: When a poor sinner sees himself almost starved in his sins, (as the Prodigal among his husks) and begins to hunger after Christ, saying, There is bread enough in my Fathers house; God will then out of his infinite compassions bring forth the fatted Calf, and refresh this soul with the delicacies and provisions of the Gospel; oh the melting of Gods bowels to an hungry sinner! Hosea 11.8. My heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled. We cannot ⟨p. 175⟩see a poor creature at the door ready to perish with hunger, but our bowels begin to relent, and we afford them some relief; and will the Father of mercies let a poor soul that hungers after the blessings of the Gospel go away without an Alms of free-grace? no, he will not, he cannot; let the hungry sinner think thus, Though I am full of wants, yet my God is full of bowels.
2. God will fill the hungry that he may fulfil his §2Word. Psal. 107.9. Jer. 41.14. Luke 6.21. Blessed are ye that hunger now, for ye shall be filled.