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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. 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*, where all the filth of the house is carried out.
2. The children of God must be sober in their opinions; hold nothing but what a sober man would hold; error, as Saint Basil saith, is a spiritual intoxication, a kind of frenzy; if Christ were upon the earth again, he might have Patients enow; there are abundance of spiritual Lunatics among us which need healing.
2. The children of God must be sober in their opinions; hold nothing but what a sober man would hold; errour, as Saint Basil saith, is a spiritual intoxication, a kind of phrensie; if Christ were upon the earth again, he might have Patients enow; there are abundance of spiritual Lunaticks among us which need healing.
3. The children of God must be sober in their attire. 1 Pet. 3.3