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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.
The words fall into two general parts.
1. The condition of the godly in this life, They are persecuted.
2. Their reward after this life, Theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.
I shall speak chiefly of the first, and wind in the other in the Applicatory.
Doctr. Doctr. The observation is, that true godliness is usually attended with persecution. Acts 14.22. We must through much tribulation enter into the Kingdom of God. Acts 13.50. The Jews stirred up the chief men of the City, and raised persecution against Paul, &c. Luther makes it the very definition of a Christian, Christianus quasi crucianus; though Christ dyed to take away the Curse from us, yet not to take away the Cross from us: Those stones which are cut out for a Building, are first under the Saw and Hammer to be hewed and squared; the godly are called lively stones,