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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.
1. Labour to be persons rightly qualified for suffering; Be righteous persons; that man who would suffer for righteousness sake, must himself be righteous; I mean Evangelically righteous; in particular I call him righteous,
1. Who breaths after sanctity, Psal. 119.5. Though sin cleaves to his heart, yet his heart doth not cleave to sin; though sin hath an alliance, yet no allowance. Rom. 7.15. What I do I allow not! a good man hates that sin to which Satan doth most tempt, and his heart most incline, Psal. 119.128.
2. A righteous person is one who makes Gods glory ⟨p. 369⟩his Centre; the glory of God is more worth than the salvation of all mens soul. He who is divinely qualified, is so zealously ambitious of Gods glory, that he cares not what he loseth, so God may be a gainer; he prefers the glory of God before credit, estate, relations. It was the speech of Kiliaz that blessed Martyr, Had I all the gold in the world to dispose of, I would give it to live with my relations, (though in prison) yet Jesus Christ is dearer to me than all.
2. A righteous person is one who makes Gods glory ⟨p. 369⟩his Center; the glory of God is more worth than the salvation of all mens soul. He who is divinely qualified, is so zealously ambitious of Gods glory, that he cares not what he loseth, so God may be a gainer; he prefers the glory of God before credit, estate, relations. It was the speech of Kiliaz that blessed Martyr, Had I all the gold in the world to dispose of, I would give it to live with my relations, (though in prison) yet Jesus Christ is dearer to me than all.