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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.
Of all others, let Ministers be impatient when Gods glory is impeached and eclipsed. A Minister without zeal, is like salt that hath lost its savour. Zeal will make men take injuries done to God, as done to themselves: It is reported of Chrysostom, that he reproved any sin against God, as if he himself had received a personal wrong*. Let not Ministers be either shaken with fear, or seduced with flattery; God never made Ministers to be as false glasses, to make bad faces look fair; for want of this fire of zeal, they are in danger of another fire, even the burning lake, Rev. 21.8. into which the fearful shall be cast.
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5. Those who are Gods children, and are born of ⟨p. 307⟩God, are of a more noble and celestial spirit than men of the world; they mind [Greek or Hebrew], things above*: 1 John 5.4. Whatsoever is born of God, [Greek or Hebrew], overcometh the world. The children of God live in an higher Region, they are compared to Eagles, Isa. 40.31. in regard of their sublimeness and heavenly-mindedness; their souls are fled aloft, Christ is in their heart. Col. 1.27. and the world is under their feet,