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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.
4. Let us carry our selves as the children of God in sedulity; we must be diligent in our Calling. Religion doth not seal Warrants to idleness; it was Hieroms advice to his friend, to be always well employed: Six days shalt thou labour; God sets all his children to work, they must not be like the lilies which toil not, neither do they spin; heaven indeed is a place of rest, Rev. 14.13. They rest from their labours; there the Saints shall lay aside all their working-tools, and take the Harp and Vial; but while we are here, we must labour in a Calling; God will bless our diligence, not our laziness.
4. Let us carry our selves as the children of God in sedulity; we must be diligent in our Calling. Religion doth not seal Warrants to idleness; it was Hieroms advice to his friend, to be alwayes well employed: Six dayes shalt thou labour; God sets all his children to work, they must not be like the lillies which toile not, neither do they spin; heaven indeed is a place of rest, Rev. 14.13. They rest from their labours; there the Saints shall lay aside all their working-tools, and take the Harp and Vial; but while we are here, we must labour in a Calling; God will bless our diligence, not our laziness.
5. Let us carry our selves as the children of God in magnanimity and heroicalness. The Saints are high-born, they are of the true blood-royal, born of God, they must do nothing sneakingly or sordidly, they must not fear the faces of men; as that brave-spirited Nehemiah, Shall such a man as I fly? Nehem. 6.11. so should a child of ⟨p. 346⟩God say, Shall I be afraid to do my duty? Shall I unworthily comply and prostitute my self to the lusts and humours of men? the children of the most High should do nothing to stain or dishonour their noble birth. A Kings son scorns to do any thing which is below him.