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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. Eternal sufferings: Jude 7. Suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
10. These present sufferings cannot hinder a man §10from being blessed. Blessed are they that are persecuted, &c. We think beati divites, blessed are they that are rich, nay, but blessed are they that are persecuted. Jam. 1.12. Blessed is the man that endures temptation. 1 Pet. 3.14. If ye suffer for righteousness sake, happy are ye.
That persecution cannot hinder us from being blessed, I shall prove by four demonstrations.