A96093:1305
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. Make the Scripture familiar to you, Psal. 119.50. The Scripture well digested by meditation will fit for suffering; The Scripture is a Christians Palladium, his Magazine and Fort-royal; it may be compared to the Tower of David, on which there hang a thousand Bucklers, Cant. 4.3. From these breasts of Scripture divine strength flows into the soul. Col. 3.16. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly. Hierom speaks of one who by frequent studying the Scripture made his breast bibliothecam Christi, the Library of Christ. The blessed Scripture as it is an honeycomb for comfort, so an armoury for strength; first, the Martyrs hearts did burn within them by reading the Scripture †,* and then their bodies were fit to burn. The Scripture arms a Christian both against tentation and persecution.
5. Make the Scripture familiar to you, Psal. 119.50. The Scripture well digested by meditation will fit for suffering; The Scripture is a Christians Palladium, his Magazine and Fort-royal; it may be compar'd to the Tower of David, on which there hang a thousand Bucklers, Cant. 4.3. From these brests of Scripture divine strength flows into the soul. Col. 3.16. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly. Hierom speaks of one who by frequent studying the Scripture made his breast bibliothecam Christi, the Library of Christ. The blessed Scripture as it is an honycomb for comfort, so an armory for strength; first, the Martyrs hearts did burn within them by reading the Scripture †,* and then their bodies were fit to burn. The Scripture armes a Christian both against tentation and persecution.
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