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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.
5. Observe hence the concatenation of the graces, poor in spirit, meek, merciful, &c. where there is one ⟨p. 39⟩grace, there is all. As they say of the Cardinal vertues, virtutes sunt inter se connexae, the virtues are chained together; so we may say of the graces of the Spirit, they are linked and chained together; he that hath poverty of Spirit, is a mourner; he that is a mourner, is meek; he that is meek, is merciful, &c. The Spirit of God plants in the heart an habit of all the graces; the new creature hath all the parts and lineaments; as in the body there is a composition of all the Elements, and a mixture of all the humours. The graces of the Spirit are like a Row of pearl, which hang together upon the string of Religion, and serve to adorn Christs Bride: This I note, to show you a difference between an hypocrite, and a true child of God: The hypocrite flatters himself with a pretence of grace; but in the mean time he hath not an habit of all the graces; he hath not poverty of spirit, nor purity of heart; whereas a child of God hath all the graces in his heart, at least radically, though not gradually. These things being premised, I come in particular to those heavenly dispositions of soul to which Christ hath affixed blessedness: And the first is, POVERTY of SPIRIT.
5. Observe hence the concatenation of the graces, poor in spirit, meek, merciful, &c. where there is one ⟨p. 39⟩grace, there is all. As they say of the Cardinal vertues, virtutes sunt inter se connexae, the vertues are chained together; so we may say of the graces of the Spirit, they are link'd and chain'd together; he that hath poverty of Spirit, is a mourner; he that is a mourner, is meek; he that is meek, is merciful, &c. The Spirit of God plants in the heart an habit of all the graces; the new creature hath all the parts and lineaments; as in the body there is a composition of all the Elements, and a mixture of all the humours. The graces of the Spirit are like a Row of pearl, which hang together upon the string of Religion, and serve to adorn Christs Bride: This I note, to shew you a difference between an hypocrite, and a true child of God: The hypocrite flatters himself with a pretence of grace; but in the mean time he hath not an habit of all the graces; he hath not poverty of spirit, nor purity of heart; whereas a child of God hath all the graces in his heart, at least radically, though not gradually. These things being premised, I come in particular to those heavenly dispositions of soul to which Christ hath affixed blessedness: And the first is, POVERTY of SPIRIT.