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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. Let us carry our selves as Gods children in humility: 1 Pet. 5.5. Be ye clothed with humility, 'tis a becoming garment. Let a child of God look his face every morning in the glass of Gods Word, and see his sinful spots; this will make him walk humbly all the day after; God cannot endure to see his children grow proud; he suffers them to fall into sin, as he did Peter, that their Plumes may fall, and they may learn to go on lower ground.
2. Let us carry our selves as Gods children in humility: 1 Pet. 5.5. Be ye cloathed with humility, 'tis a becoming garment. Let a childe of God look his face every morning in the glass of Gods Word, and see his sinful spots; this will make him walk humbly all the day after; God cannot endure to see his children grow proud; he suffers them to fall into sin, as he did Peter, that their Plumes may fall, and they may learn to go on lower ground.
3. Let us walk as the children of God in sobriety: 1 Thes. 5.8. But let us who are of the day be sober: Gods children must not do as others, they must be sober.
1. In their speeches; not rash, not unseemly. Col. 4.6. Let your speech be seasoned with salt: Grace must be the salt which seasons our words, and makes them savoury; our words must be solid and weighty, not feathery; Gods children must speak the language of Canaan; many pretend to be Gods children, but their speech bewrayeth them; their lips do not drop as an honey-comb, but are like the sink