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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.
Prejudice 1 1. The paucity of them that embrace Religion. The way of Christ is but a path-way, Psal. 119.35. whereas the way of pleasure and vanity is the road-way; many ignorantly conclude, That must needs be the best way which most go.
Answ. 1. There are but few that are saved, and will not you be saved because so few are saved? a man doth not argue thus in other things, There are but few rich, therefore I will not be rich; nay, therefore he the rather strives to be rich. Why should not we argue thus wisely about our souls? There are but few that go to heaven, therefore we will labour the more to be of the number of that few.
Ans. 2. What a weak argument is this, There are but few that embrace Religion, therefore you will not? Those things which are more excellent, are more rare: there are but few Pearls and Diamonds, in Rome few Senators; the fewness of them that embrace Religion, argues the way of Religion excellent.
Ans. 2. What a weak argument is this, There are but few that embrace Religion, therefore you will not? Those things which are more excellent, are more rare: there are but few Pearls and Diamonds, in Rome few Senators; the fewnesse of them that embrace Religion, argues the way of Religion excellent.