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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. I distinguish between Poor in Estate, and Poor in Spirit; there are the Devils poor, poor and wicked; whose clothes are not more torn than their conscience. ⟨p. 40⟩There are some whose poverty is their sin; who through Improvidence or Excess, have brought themselves to want; these may be poor in Estate, but not poor in Spirit.
1. I distinguish between Poor in Estate, and Poor in Spirit; there are the Divels poor, poor and wicked; whose cloaths are not more torn than their conscience. ⟨p. 40⟩There are some whose poverty is their sin; who through Improvidence or Excess, have brought themselves to want; these may be poor in Estate, but not poor in Spirit.
2. I distinguish between spiritually Poor, and Poor in spirit; he who is without grace, is spiritually poor; but he is not poor in Spirit; he knows not his own beggary. Rev. 3.17. Thou knowest not that thou art Poor: He is in the worst sense poor, who hath no sense of his poverty.
2. I distinguish between spiritually Poor, and Poor in spirit; he who is without grace, is spiritually poor; but he is not poor in Spirit; he knows not his own beggery. Rev. 3.17. Thou knowest not that thou art Poor: He is in the worst sense poor, who hath no sense of his poverty.