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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.
Quest. 2 2. The second Question is, What is the difference between poverty of spirit and humility? Answ. These are so like, that they have been taken one for the other. Chrysostom by poverty of spirit, understands humility*; yet I think there is some difference; they differ as the cause and the effect. Tertullian saith, none are poor in spirit, but the humble*; he seems to make humility the cause of poverty of spirit; I rather think poverty of spirit is the cause of humility; for when a man sees his want of Christ, and how he lives on the Alms of free-grace, this makes him humble; he that is sensible of his own vacuity and indigence, with the Violet, hangs down his head in humility; humility is the sweet spice that grows from poverty of spirit.
- *[Greek or Hebrew]. Chrysost. in loc.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Chrysost. in loc.
- *Nulli, pauperes spiritu nisi hamiles. Tert.
Quest. 3 3. What is the difference between poverty of spirit and self-denial? I answer, in some things they agree, in some things they differ. In some things they agree; for the Poor in spirit is an absolute self-denier; he renounceth all opinion of himself; he acknowledgeth his dependence on Christ and free-grace; but in some things they differ; the self-denier parts with the world for Christ, the poor in spirit parts with himself for Christ; i. e. his own righteousness; the poor in spirit sees himself nothing without Christ, the self-denier will leave himself nothing for Christ: And thus I have showed what poverty of spirit is. The words thus opened, present us with this truth.