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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. Unbelief causeth the fear of men; degeneres animos timor arguit; fear is a debasing thing, it doth unman a man, it makes him afraid to be good; the fearful man studies rather compliance than conscience. Prov. 29.25. The fear of man bringeth a snare: What made Abraham equivocate, David feign himself mad, Peter deny Christ? Was it not their fear? And whence doth fear spring, but from unbelief? therefore the Scripture joins them together, Revel. 21.8. The fearful and unbelieving.
4. Unbelief causeth the fear of men; degeneres animos timor arguit; fear is a debasing thing, it doth unman a man, it makes him afraid to be good; the fearful man studies rather compliance than conscience. Prov. 29.25. The fear of man bringeth a snare: What made Abraham equivocate, David feign himself mad, Peter deny Christ? Was it not their fear? And whence doth fear spring, but from unbelief? therefore the Scripture joyns them together, Revel. 21.8. The fearful and unbelieving.
5. Unbelief is the root of Apostasy. Hebr. 3.12. An evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God. What is the reason those who seemed once zealous, now despise prophesying, and leave off prayer in their Families? is it not their unbelief? they believe not that God is, and that be is a rewarder of them that seek him, Hebr. 11.6. Infidelity is the cause of Apostasy; [Greek or Hebrew] leads to [Greek or Hebrew]. And if infidelity be the breeder and fomenter of so much sin, then the unbelieving heart must needs be an impure heart.