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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.
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Use 1 Use 1 IT shows wherein a Christians riches do consist; namely, in poverty of spirit. Some think if they can fill their bags with gold, then they are rich; but they who are poor in spirit are the rich men, they are rich in poverty. ⟨p. 45⟩This poverty entitles them to a Kingdom. How poor are they that think themselves rich! how rich are they that see themselves poor! I call it the Jewel of poverty. There are some Paradoxes in Religion that the world cannot understand; for a man to become a fool that he may be wise, 1 Cor. 3.18. to save his life by losing it, Matth. 16.25. and by being poor, to be rich; Reason laughs at it; but, blessed are the poor, for theirs is the Kingdom; Then this poverty is to be striven for more than all riches; under these rags is hid cloth of gold; out of this carcass comes honey.
Use 1 Use 1 IT shews wherein a Christians riches do consist; namely, in poverty of spirit. Some think if they can fill their bags with gold, then they are rich; but they who are poor in spirit are the rich men, they are rich in poverty. ⟨p. 45⟩This poverty entitles them to a Kingdom. How poor are they that think themselves rich! how rich are they that see themselves poor! I call it the Jewel of poverty. There are some Paradoxes in Religion that the world cannot understand; for a man to become a fool that he may be wise, 1 Cor. 3.18. to save his life by losing it,