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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.
SECT. 2.
Setting forth the several kinds of persecution.
2. WHAT are the several kinds of persecution? There is a two-fold persecution.
A persecution of the hand. A persecution of the tongue.
1. A persecution of the hand. Acts 7.52. Which of the Prophets have not your fathers persecuted? Rom. 8.36. For thy sake are we killed all the day long, Gal. 4.29. This I call a bloody persecution, when the people of God are prosecuted with fire and sword: So we read of the ten persecutions in the time of Nero Domitian, Trajan, &c. And the Marian persecution; England for five years drank a Cup of blood; and lately Piedmont, and the confines of Bohemia have been scourged to death with the Rod of the Persecutor; Gods Church hath always like Abraham's Ram, been tied in a Bush of thorns.