The Beatitudes
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
This Exposition of Matthew 5:1-12 offers fresh and instructive thoughts, even now three hundred years later. The Beatitudes were a favorite topic of the Puritans—as they could show to best advantage a preacher's gifts for sound doctrine, practical wisdom, and heart-searching applications. Watson combines all of those traits in a terse, vigorous style with plenty of illustrations from everyday life.
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Top Highlights
“But will all mourning entitle a man to blessedness? No, there is a twofold mourning which is far from making one blessed. There is a carnal mourning. There is a diabolical mourning.” (Page 59)
“So it is not our preaching, but the divine influence of the Spirit that makes grace grow in men’s hearts. We are but pipes and organs. It is God’s Spirit blowing in us that makes the preaching of the Word by a divine enchantment allure souls to Christ. Ministers are but stars to light you to Christ. The Spirit is the loadstone to draw you. All the good done by our ministry is ‘due to the Lord’s excellent and effectual working’ (Bucer). Oh then pray for us, that God will make his work prosper in our hands.” (Page 23)
“The third ingredient in blessedness is plenty; that which makes a man blessed must not be too scanty.” (Page 30)
“But in true blessedness there must be a sensible enjoyment of that which the soul possesses.” (Page 29)
- Title: The Beatitudes: An Exposition of Matthew 5:1–12
- Author: Thomas Watson
- Publisher: Wordsearch
- Print Publication Date: 2008
- Logos Release Date: 2020
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subject: Preaching
- Resource ID: LLS:WS_9E631A9EE50C476DB477DA8379CB77EE
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2021-09-29T22:18:22Z