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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. 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, 1 Sam. 28.15. could all the Jewels of his Crown comfort him? if God be angry, whose fury is poured out like fire, and the Rocks are thrown down by him, Nahum 1.6. can a wedge of gold be a Screen to keep off this fire? Ezek. 7.19. They shall cast their silver in the streets; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. King Belshazzar was Carousing and Ranting it; he drank wine in the golden Vessels of the Temple, Dan. 5.3. but when the fingers of a mans hand appeared, his countenance was changed, ver. 6. his wine grew sour, his feast was spoiled with that Dish which was served in upon the Wall. The things of the world will no more keep out trouble of spirit, than a paper sconce will keep out a bullet.
2. That which cannot quiet the heart in a storme, cannot intitle 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 poure in wine and oyle 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 stockin can cure a gouty leg. When Saul was sore distressed,