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A godly and learned exposition of Christs Sermon in the Mount
A godly and learned exposition of Christs Sermon in the Mount: preached in Cambridge by that reverend and judicious divine M. William Perkins. Published at the request of his executors by Th. Pierson preacher of Gods word. Whereunto is adjoined a twofold table: one, of special points here handled; the other, of choice places of Scripture here quotedA godly and learned exposition of Christs Sermon in the Mount: preached in Cambridge by that reuerend and iudicious diuine M. William Perkins. Published at the request of his exequutors by Th. Pierson preacher of Gods word. Whereunto is adioyned a twofold table: one, of speciall points here handled; the other, of choise places of Scripture here quoted
Cambridge : Printed by Thomas Brooke and Cantrell Legge, printers to the University of Cambridge, 1608Cambridge : Printed by Thomas Brooke and Cantrell Legge, printers to the Vniuersitie of Cambridge, 1608
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Vers. 7. Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
Vers. 7. Blessed are the mercifull: for they shall obtaine mercie.
This verse containeth the fifth Rule or precept of our Saviour Christ1 touching true happiness, in which observe two points: first, who be blessed: secondly, wherein this blessedness consisteth▪ For the first: the parties blessed be the merciful. And that we may the better know them, I will speak something of this virtue: first, showing what mercy is: then, what be the chief duties thereof.
This verse containeth the fift Rule or precept of our Sauiour Christ1 touching true happines, in which obserue two points: first, who be blessed: secondly, wherein this blessednes consisteth▪ For the first: the parties blessed be the mercifull. And that we may the better know them, I will speake something of this vertue: first, shewing what mercie is: then, what be the cheife duties thereof.
- 15. Rule.
First, Mercy is an holy compassion of heart, whereby a man is moved 1to help an other in his misery. First, I call it a compassion of heart, because it makes one man to put on the person of an other, and to be grieved for the miseries of an other, as if they were his own: and therefore it is called