A96093:1207
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.
SECT. 1.
Showing what is meant by persecution.
Shewing what is meant by persecution.
1. WHAT is meant by persecution? the Greek word [Greek or Hebrew], to persecute, signifies to vex and molest, sometimes to prosecute another, to arraign him at the Bar, and to pursue him to the death; a persecutor is a pricking briar*, therefore the Church is described to be a Lilly among thorns, Cant. 2.2.
1. WHAT is meant by persecution? the Greek word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, to persecute, signifies to vex and molest, sometimes to prosecute another, to arraign him at the Bar, and to pursue him to the death; a persecutor is a pricking bryar*, therefore the Church is described to be a Lilly among thorns, Cant. 2.2.
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