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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.
Quest. 2. Whence doth mercy spring?
Answ. Its spring-head riseth higher than nature; Mercy taken in its full latitude, proceeds from a work of grace in the heart; naturally we are far enough from mercy; the sinner is a bramble, not a Fig-tree yielding sweet fruit: 'Tis the Character and [Greek or Hebrew] of a natural man, unmerciful, Rom. 1.31. A wicked man like Jehoram, hath his bowels fallen out*. Therefore he is compared to an Adamant, Zach. 7.11. because his heart melts not in mercy. Before conversion the sinner is compared to a Wolf for his savageness, to a Lyon for his fierceness*, to a Bee for his sting, Psal. 118.12. to an Adder for his poison, Psal. 140.3. By nature we do not send forth oil, but poison; not the oil of mercifulness, but the poison of maliciousness.
Answ. Its spring-head riseth higher than nature; Mercy taken in its full latitude, proceeds from a work of grace in the heart; naturally we are far enough from mercy; the sinner is a bramble, not a Fig-tree yielding sweet fruit: 'Tis the Character and 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 of a natural man, unmerciful, Rom. 1.31. A wicked man like Jehoram, hath his bowels fallen out*. Therefore he is compared to an Adamant,