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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.
1. By prizing their persons above others: He who is born of God, honoureth them that fear the Lord, Psal. 15.4. The Saints are the dearly beloved of Gods soul, Jerem. 12.7. They are his jewels, Mal. 3.17. They are of the true blood-royal; and he who is divinely adopted, sets an higher estimate upon these, than upon others.
2. We show our love to the children of God, by prizing their company above others. Children love to associate and be together; the communion of Saints is precious. Christs Doves will flock together in company; pares cum paribus, &c. Psal. 119.63. I am a companion of all them that fear thee; though a child of God is courteous to all*; We read that Abraham bowed himself to the children of Heth, Gen. 23.7. A child of God hath a love of civility to all, but a love of complacency only to such as are fellow-heirs with him of the same inheritance.
2. We shew our love to the children of God, by prizing their company above others. Children love to associate and be together; the communion of Saints is precious. Christs Doves will flock together in company; pares cum paribus, &c. Psal. 119.63. I am a companion of all them that fear thee; though a childe of God is courteous to all*; We read that Abraham bowed himself to the children of Heth,