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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. Because they are not suitable: The soul is a spiritual thing, riches are of an earthly extract*, and how can these fill a spiritual substance? a man may as well fill his Chest with grace, as his heart with gold; if a man were crowned with all the delights of the world, nay, if God should build him an house among the Stars, yet the restless eye of his unsatisfied mind would be looking still higher, he would be prying beyond the heavens for some hidden rarities which he thinks he hath not yet attained to; so unquenchable is the thirst of the soul, till it come to bath in the River of life, and to centre upon true blessedness.
2. Because they are not sutable: The soul is a spiritual thing, riches are of an earthly extract*, and how can these fill a spiritual substance? a man may as well fill his Chest with grace, as his heart with gold; if a man were crowned with all the delights of the world, nay, if God should build him an house among the Stars, yet the restless eye of his unsatisfied mind would be looking still higher, he would be prying beyond the heavens for some hidden rarities which he thinks he hath not yet attained to; so unquenchable is the thirst of the soul, till it come to bath in the River of life, and to center upon true blessedness.
- *Effodiuntur opes.
2. That which cannot quiet the heart in a storm, cannot entitle a man to blessedness; but earthly things accumulated, cannot rock the troubled heart quiet, therefore ⟨p. 21⟩they cannot make one blessed. If the Spirit be wounded, can the creature pour in wine and oil into these wounds? if God sets on conscience, and it flies in a mans face, can worldly comforts take off this angry fury? Is there any Harp to drive away the evil Spirit? outward things can no more cure the agony of conscience, than a silken stocking can cure a gouty leg. When Saul was sore distressed,