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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.
1. He may forbear sin; as one may hold his breath while he dives under water, and then take breath again: And a man may forbear sin: 1. For want of occasion; The Gun-powder makes no noise till the fire be put to it; the Clock stands still till the Weights are put on. Let a tentation come, which is like the hanging on of the Weights, and the heart goes as fast in sin as ever. 2. He may forbear sin, formidine poenae, for fear. A man forbears a Dish he loves, for fear it should bring his disease upon him of the stone or gout. There is a conflict in a sinner between the passion of desire and fear. Desire ⟨p. 241⟩spurs him on to sin, but fear as a Curb-bit checks him; nor is it the crookedness of the Serpent he fears, but the sting of the Serpent. 3. He may forbear sin out of a design; he hath a plot in hand, and his sin might spoil his plot. Some rich heir would fly out in excess, but he carries it fair to prevent a cutting off the Entail. How good was Joash while Jehoiada the Priest lived! Prudence as well as Conscience may restrain from sin.
1. He may forbear sin; as one may hold his breath while he dives under water, and then take breath again: And a man may forbear sin: 1. For want of occasion; The Gun-powder makes no noise till the fire be put to it; the Clock stands still till the Weights are put on. Let a tentation come, which is like the hanging on of the Weights, and the heart goes as fast in sin as ever. 2. He may forbear sin, formidine poenae, for fear. A man forbears a Dish he loves, for fear it should bring his disease upon him of the stone or gout. There is a conflict in a sinner between the passion of desire and fear. Desire ⟨p. 241⟩spurs him on to sin, but fear as a Curben-bit checks him; nor is it the crookedness of the Serpent he fears, but the sting of the Serpent. 3. He may forbear sin out of a design; he hath a plot in hand, and his sin might spoile his plot. Some rich heir would flie out in excess, but he carries it fair to prevent a cutting off the Entail. How good was Joash while Jehoiada the Priest lived! Prudence as well as Conscience may restraine from sin.