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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.
2. Perhaps thou thirstest as much after a tentation as after righteousness: At a Sacrament thou seemest to be inflamed with desire after Christ; but the next tentation that comes, either to drunkenness or lasciviousness, thou fallest in, and closest with the tentation. Satan doth but beckon to thee, and thou comest; thou openest faster to the Tempter than to Christ; and dost thou wonder thou art not filled with the fat things of Gods house?
2. Perhaps thou thirstest as much after a tentation as after righteousness: At a Sacrament thou seemest to be inflamed with desire after Christ; but the next tentation that comes, either to drunkenness or lasciviousness, thou fallest in, and closest with the tentation. Satan doth but becken to thee, and thou comest; thou openest faster to the Tempter than to Christ; and dost thou wonder thou art not filled with the fat things of Gods house?
3. Perhaps thou hungerest more after the world than after righteousness: The young man in the Gospel would have Christ, but the world lay nearer his heart than Christ: hypocrites pant more after the dust of the Earth *than the water of life. Israel had no Manna while their Dough lasted; such as feed immoderately upon the Dough of earthly things, must not think to be filled with Manna ⟨p. 179⟩from heaven; if your money be your god, never look to receive another God in the Sacrament.
3. Perhaps thou hungerest more after the world than after righteousness: The young man in the Gospel would have Christ, but the world lay nearer his heart than Christ: hypocrites pant more after the dust of the Earth *than the water of life. Israel had no Manna while their Dough lasted; such as feed immoderately upon the Dough of earthly things, must not think to be fill'd with Manna