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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.
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: Psal. 65.9, 10. Doth the Lord satisfy the thirsty Earth with showers, and will he not satisfy the thirsty soul with grace?
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 satisfie it: Psal. 65.9, 10. Doth the Lord satisfie the thirsty Earth with showres, and will he not satisfie the thirsty soul with grace?
5. God will satisfy the hungry, because the hungry soul is most thankful for mercy; when the restless desire hath been drawn out after God, and God fills it, how thankful is a Christian! The Lord loves to bestow his mercy where he may have most praise; we delight to give to them that are thankful: Musicians love to play where there is the best sound; God loves to bestow his mercies where he may hear of them again: The hungry soul sets the Crown of praise upon the head of free-grace.