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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.
Qui te Christe bibent, dulci torrente refecti Non sitient ultra, sed tamen & sitient. —
Use. What an Encouragement is this to hunger after righteousness! such shall be filled: Use. God chargeth us to fill the hungry, Isa. 58.10. He blames those who do not fill the hungry, Isa. 32.6. And do we think he will be slack in that which he blames us for not doing? Oh come with hungrings after Christ, and be assured of satisfaction. God keeps open house for hungry sinners; he invites his Guests, and bids them come without money, Isa. 55.1, 2. Gods Nature inclines him, and his Promise obligeth him to fill the hungry. Consider, Why did Christ receive the Spirit without measure? John 3.34. It was not for himself; he was infinitely full before; but he was filled with the holy unction for this end, that he might distil his grace upon the hungry soul. Art thou ignorant? Christ was filled with wisdom that he might teach thee. Art thou polluted? Christ was filled with grace that he might cleanse thee: Shall not the soul then come to Christ, who was filled on purpose to fill the hungry? we love to knock ⟨p. 178⟩at a rich mans door; in our Fathers house there is bread enough; come with desire, and you shall go away with comfort; you shall have the virtues of Christs blood, the influences of his Spirit, the communications of his love.
Use. What an Encouragement is this to hunger after righteousness! such shall be filled: Use. God chargeth us to fill the hungry, Isa. 58.10. He blames those who do not fill the hungry,