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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.
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,* to keep them from bending. Children are young Plants; the heavenly precepts of their parents are like stays set about them, to keep them from bending to error and and profaneness; when can there be a fitter season to disseminate and infuse knowledge into children, than in their minority? Now is a time to give them the breast, and let them suck in the sincere milk of the Word, 1 Pet. 2.2.
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 stayes to them,* to keep them from bending. Children are young Plants; the heavenly precepts of their parents are like stayes set about them, to keep them from bending to errour and and profaness; when can there be a fitter season to disseminate and infuse knowledge into children, than in their minority? Now is a time to give them the breast, and let them suck in the sincere milk of the Word,