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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.
MATTH. 5.10. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.
MATTH. 5.10. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake, for theirs is the Kingdome of heaven.
CHAP. XXI.
Concerning Persecution.
WE are now come to the last Beatitude, Blessed are they which are persecuted, &c. Our Lord Christ would have us reckon the cost: Luke 14.27, 28. Which of you intending to build a Tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have enough to finish it? &c. Religion will cost us the tears of Repentance, and the blood of persecution; but we see here a great encouragement that may keep us from fainting in the day of ⟨p. 348⟩