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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. Prize every truth of God; the filings of gold are §3precious, the least ray of truth is glorious. Prov. 23.23. Buy the truth, and sell it not. Truth is the object of faith, 2 Thes. 2.13. The seed of Regeneration, Jam. 1.18. The spring of joy, 1 Cor. 13.6. Truth crowns us with salvation, 1 Tim. 2.4. If ever you would suffer for the truth, prize it above all things; he that doth not prize truth above life, will never lay down his life for the truth. The blessed Martyrs sealed to the truth with their blood. There are two things God counts most dear to him, his glory and his truth. I will, saith Bishop Jewel, deny my Bishopric, I will deny my name and credit, but the truths of Christ I cannot deny.
3. Prize every truth of God; the filings of gold are §3precious, the least ray of truth is glorious. Prov. 23.23. Buy the truth, and sell it not. Truth is the object of faith, 2 Thes. 2.13. The seed of Regeneration, Jam. 1.18. The spring of joy, 1 Cor. 13.6. Truth crowns us with salvation, 1 Tim. 2.4. If ever you would suffer for the truth, prize it above all things; he that doth not prize truth above life, will never lay down his life for the truth. The blessed Martyrs sealed to the truth with their blood. There are two things God counts most dear to him, his glory and his truth. I will, saith Bishop Jewel, deny my Bishopwrick, I will deny my name and credit, but the truths of Christ I cannot deny.