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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.
SECT. 3.
Use 2 TO such as are cut short in their allowance, whose cup doth not over-flow, but their tears; Be not too much troubled; remember these outward comforts cannot make you blessed; you might live rich, and dye cursed; you might treasure up an Estate, and God might treasure up Wrath: Be not perplexed about those things, the want whereof cannot make you miserable, nor the enjoyment make you blessed.
SECT. 4.
Having shown wherein blessedness doth not consist, I shall next show wherein it doth consist. Blessedness doth stand in the fruition of the chief good. 1. It consists in fruition; there must not be only possession, but fruition. A man may possess an Estate, yet not enjoy it; he may have the dominion of it, but not the comfort; as when he is in a Lethargy, or under the predominancy of melancholy; but in true blessedness there must be a sensible enjoyment of that which the soul doth possess. 2. Blessedness lies in the fruition of the chief good; it is not every good makes a man blessed, but it must be the supreme good, and that ⟨p. 25⟩is God.