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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. Disgrace increaseth their grace; the Husbandman by dunging his ground makes the soil more rich and fertile; God lets the wicked dung his people with reproaches and calumnies, that their hearts may be a richer soil for grace to grow in.
1. Disgrace encreaseth their grace; the Husbandman by dunging his ground makes the soile more rich and fertil; God lets the wicked dung his people with reproaches and calumnies, that their hearts may be a richer soile for grace to grow in.
2. Reproach increaseth their glory; he that unjustly ⟨p. 338⟩takes from a Saints credit, shall add to his Crown; the Sun shines brighter after an Eclipse; the more a child of God is eclipsed by reproaches, the brighter he shall shine in the Kingdom of heaven.
2. Reproach encreaseth their glory; he that unjustly ⟨p. 338⟩takes from a Saints credit, shall adde to his Crown; the Sun shines brighter after an Eclipse; the more a childe of God is eclipsed by reproaches, the brighter he shall shine in the Kingdom of heaven.
4. Persecution to Gods children works for good; the godly may be compared to that Plant which Greg. Naz. speaks of, It lives by dying, and grows by cutting*: The zeal and love of the Saints is blown up by sufferings, their joy flourisheth. Tertullian saith, the Primitive Christians rejoiced more in their persecutions than in their deliverance.