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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.
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.
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 flie? Nehem. 6.11. so should a childe 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 humors 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.
6. Let us carry our selves as Gods children in sanctity, 1 Pet. 1.16. Holiness is the diadem of beauty, in this let us imitate our heavenly Father; a debauched child is a disgrace to his father; there's nothing doth more cast a reflection on our heavenly Father, than the irregular actings of such as profess themselves his children. What will others say, Are these the children of the most High, is God their Father?