A96093:1061
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.
How far are they from being Gods children, who have no care to bring others into the Family of God! Too blame are those Masters, who mind more their servants work, than their souls; too blame are those parents, who are regardless of their children; they do not drop in principles of knowledge into them, but suffer them to have their head; they will let them lye and swear, but not ask blessing; read Play-books, but not Scripture.
Object. 1 Object. 1. But say some, to catechise and teach our ⟨p. 311⟩children, is to take Gods name in vain.
Object. 1 Object. 1. But say some, to chatechise and teach our ⟨p. 311⟩children, is to take Gods name in vain.
Answ. 1. Is the fulfilling Gods command taking Answ. 1 his name in vain? Deut. 6.6, 7. These words which I command thee this day, thou shalt teach them diligently to thy children. Prov. 22.6. Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. Ephes. 6.4. Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. This three-fold cord of Scripture is not easily broken.