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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.
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.
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 childe 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.
2. The Saints of old were continually grafting principles Answ. 2 of holy knowledge in their children. Gen. 18.19. I know that Abraham will command his children, and they shall keep the way of the Lord. 1 Chron. 28.9. And thou Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy Father, and serve him with a perfect heart. Sure Abraham and David did not take Gods name in vain. What need is there of instilling holy instructions to over-top the poysonful weeds of sin that grow? as Husbandmen, when they have planted young Trees, they set stays to them,