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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.
3. God will fill the hungry soul, because he himself hath excited and stirred up this hunger; he plants holy desires §3in us, and will not he satisfy those desires which he himself hath wrought in us? as in case of prayer, when God prepares the heart to pray, he prepares his ear to hear, Psal. 17.10. So in case of spiritual hunger, when God prepares the heart to hunger, he will prepare his hand to fill; it is not rational to imagine that God should deny to satisfy that hunger which he himself hath caused: Nature doth nothing in vain: Should the Lord inflame the desire after righteousness, and not fill it, he might seem to do something in vain.
3. God will fill the hungry soul, because he himself hath excited and stirred up this hunger; he plants holy desires §3in us, and will not he satisfie those desires which he himself hath wrought in us? as in case of prayer, when God prepares the heart to pray, he prepares his ear to hear, Psal. 17.10. So in case of spiritual hunger, when God prepares the heart to hunger, he will prepare his hand to fill; it is not rational to imagine that God should deny to satisfie that hunger which he himself hath caused: Nature doth nothing in vain: Should the Lord inflame the desire after righteousness, and not fill it, he might seem to do something in vain.
4. God will fill the hungry, from those sweet Relations he stands unto them, they are his children; we cannot ⟨p. 176⟩§4deny our children when they are hungry, we will rather spare it from our selves: Luke 11.13. When he that is born of God, shall come and say, Father, I hunger, give me Christ; Father, I thirst, refresh me with the living streams of thy Spirit, can God deny? Doth God hear the Raven when it cries, and will he not hear the righteous when they cry? when the Earth opens its mouth and thirsts, God doth satisfy it: