The Beatitudes: An Exposition of Matthew 5:1

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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...

Blessed are they that mourn.—Matthew 5:4 Here are eight steps leading to true blessedness. They may be compared to Jacob’s Ladder, the top whereof reached to heaven. We have already gone over one step, and now let us proceed to the second: ‘Blessed are they that mourn’. We must go through the valley of tears to paradise. Mourning were a sad and unpleasant subject to treat on, were it not that it has blessedness going before, and comfort coming after. Mourning is put here for repentance. It implies

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