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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.
3. That suffering will not make men blessed, when they suffer out of sinister respects, to be cried up as the head of a Party, or to keep up a Faction. The Apostle implies that a man may give his body to be burned, yet go to hell, 1 Cor. 13.3. Ambitions men may sacrifice their lives to purchase same; these are the Devils Martyrs.
3. That suffering will not make men blessed, when they suffer out of sinister respects, to be cried up as the head of a Party, or to keep up a Faction. The Apostle implies that a man may give his body to be burned, yet go to hell, 1 Cor. 13.3. Ambitions men may sacrifice their lives to purchase same; these are the Divels Martyrs.
— Vicit amor Patriae laudisque immensa cupido.
2. What that suffering persecution is which will make §2us blessed, and shall wear the Crown of Martyrdom.