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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. A man must deny worldly self; that is, his estate. Matth. 19.27. Behold we have forsaken all, and followed thee. The gold of Ophir must be denied for the pearl of price; Let their money perish with them (said that noble Marquess of Vico) who esteem all the gold and silver in the world worth one hours communion with Christ.
1. A man must deny worldly self; that is, his estate. Matth. 19.27. Behold we have forsaken all, and followed thee. The gold of Ophir must be denied for the pearle of price; Let their money perish with them (said that noble Marquess of Vico) who esteem all the gold and silver in the world worth one houres communion with Christ.
2. A man must deny RELATIVE SELF, his dearest Relations if God calls; if our nearest alliance, father or mother stand in our way, and would hinder us from doing our duty, we must either leap over them, or ⟨p. 377⟩tread upon them. Luke 14.26. If any man come to me, and hate not father and mother, and wife, and children, &c. he cannot be my Disciple. Relations must not weigh heavier than Christ.