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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.
TO THE Reader.
Christian Reader,
I Here present thee with a Subject full of Sweet Variety: This Sermon of Christ on the Mount, is a piece of Spiritual Needle-work, wrought about with divers Colours; here is both Utile, & Dulce. In this portion of Holy Scripture, thou hast a Breviary of Religion; the Bible Epitomized. Here is a Garden of Delight, set with Curious Knots, ⟨image 6⟩where thou mayest pluck those Flowers which will deck the Hidden man of thy heart. Here is the Golden Key which will open the gate of Paradise: Here is the conduit of the Gospel, running Wine to cheer such as are Poor in spirit, and Pure in heart: Here is the Rich Cabinet, wherein the Pearl of Blessedness is locked up: Here is the Golden Pot, in which is that Manna which will feed and refocillate the Soul unto Everlasting life. In a word, here is away Chalked out to the Holy of Holies. Reader, how happy were it if while others take up their time and thoughts about Secular things, which Perish in the using, thou couldest mind Eternity, and be guided by this Scripture-clue, which leads thee to the Beatifical vision1. If after God hath set life before thee, thou shalt indulge thy sensual appetite, and still Court thy lusts, how ⟨image 6⟩inexcusable will be thy neglect, and how unexpressible thy misery? The Lord grant that while thou hast an opportunity, and the wind serves thee, thou mayest not lye idle at anchor, and when it is too late, begin to hoist up Sails for Heaven. Ob now Christian, let thy Loins be girt, and thy Lamps burning, that when the Lord Jesus, thy blessed Bridegroom shall Knock, thou mayest be ready to go in with him to the Marriage-supper, which shall be the Prayer of him who is