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The Beatitudes: An Exposition of Matthew 5:1–12 is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

blessedness hung upon an earthly crown! O, says one, if I had but such an estate, then I should be happy! Had I but such a comfort, then I should sit down satisfied! Well, God gives him that comfort and lets him suck out the very juice and spirits of it, but, alas, it falls short of his expectation. It cannot fill the hiatus and longing of his soul which still cries ‘Give, give’ (Proverbs 30:15); just like a sick man. If, says he, I had but such a meat, I could eat it; and when he has it, his stomach
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