A96093:1306
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. Against Tentation. Christ himself when he was tempted by the Devil, ran to Scripture for armour, it is ⟨p. 375⟩written. Three times he wounds the old Serpent with this sword. Hierom saith of Saint Paul he could never have gone through so many tentations but for his Scripture-armour. Christian, art thou tempted? go to Scripture, gather a stone hence, to sling in the face of a Goliath-temptation; art thou tempted to pride? read that Scripture, 1 Pet. 5.5. God resisteth the proud; art thou tempted to lust? read James 1.15. when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin, and sin when it is finished bringeth forth death.
1. Against Tentation. Christ himself when he was tempted by the Divel, ran to Scripture for armour, it is ⟨p. 375⟩written. Three times he wounds the old Serpent with this sword. Hierom saith of Saint Paul he could never have gone through so many tentations but for his Scripture-armour. Christian, art thou tempted? go to Scripture, gather a stone hence, to sling in the face of a Goliah-temptation; art thou tempted to pride? read that Scripture, 1 Pet. 5.5. God resisteth the proud; art thou tempted to lust? read James 1.15. when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin, and sin when it is finished bringeth forth death.