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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. To regard iniquity, is to delight in iniquity. A child of God, though he sins, yet he doth not take a complacency in sin. Rom. 7.15. What I hate, that do I; but impure souls make a recreation of sin. 2 Thes. 2.12. ⟨p. 232⟩They had pleasure in unrighteousness. Never did one feed with more delight on a dish he loves, than a wicked man doth upon the forbidden fruit. This delight shows the will is in the sin. Et voluntas est regula, & mensura actionis.
2. To regard iniquity, is to delight in iniquity. A child of God, though he sins, yet he doth not take a complacency in sin. Rom. 7.15. What I hate, that do I; but impure souls make a recreation of sin. 2 Thes. 2.12. ⟨p. 232⟩They had pleasure in unrighteousness. Never did one feed with more delight on a dish he loves, than a wicked man doth upon the forbidden fruit. This delight shews the will is in the sin. Et voluntas est regula, & mensura actionis.
3. To regard iniquity, is to lay in provision for sin. Rom. 13.14. Make not provision for the flesh: Sinners are Caterers for their lusts; 'tis a Metaphor taken from such as make provision for a Family, or victual a Garrison. The Greek word there, [Greek or Hebrew], signifies a projecting and fore-casting in the mind how to bring a thing about. This is to make provision for the flesh, when one studies to gratify the flesh, and lay in fuel for lust. Thus Amnon made provision for the flesh,