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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. I distinguish between Poor-spirited, and Poor in spirit. They are said to be poor-spirited, who have mean, base spirits, who act below themselves. 1. As they are men; such are those Misers, which having great Estates, yet can hardly afford themselves bread; who live sneakingly, and are ready to wish their own throats cut, because they are forced to spend something in satisfying Natures demands: This Solomon calls an evil under the Sun. Eccles. 6.2. There is an evil which I have seen under the Sun, a man to whom God hath given Riches, so that he wants nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof. Religion makes no man a Niggard; though it teacheth prudence, yet not sordidness. 2. Who act below themselves as they are Christians, while they sinfully comply and prostitute themselves to the humours of others; a base kind of mettle that will take any stamp; they will for a piece of silver part with the jewel of a good conscience, they will be of the State-Religion; they will dance to the Devils Pipe, if their Superior commands them; These are Poor-spirited, but not Poor in Spirit.
3. I distinguish between Poor-spirited, and Poor in spirit. They are said to be poor-spirited, who have mean, base spirits, who act below themselves. 1. As they are men; such are those Misers, which having great Estates, yet can hardly afford themselves bread; who live sneakingly, and are ready to wish their own throats cut, because they are forced to spend something in satisfying Natures demands: This Solomon calls an evil under the Sun. Eccles. 6.2. There is an evil which I have seen under the Sun, a man to whom God hath given Riches, so that he wants nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof. Religion makes no man a Niggard; though it teacheth prudence, yet not sordidness. 2. Who act below themselves as they are Christians, while they sinfully comply and prostitute themselves to the humours of others; a base kind of mettle that will take any stamp; they will for a piece of silver part with the jewel of a good conscience, they will be of the State-Religion; they will dance to the Divels Pipe, if their Superiour commands them; These are Poor-spirited, but not Poor in Spirit.