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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.
SECT. 3.
Use 3 IF poverty of spirit be so necessary,1 How shall I Use 3 know that I am poor in spirit? Answ. By the blessed effects of this Poverty: which are;
- 1Trial.
1. He that is poor in spirit is weaned from himself,§1 Psalm 131.2. My soul is even as a weaned child; 'tis hard for a man to be weaned from himself. The Vine catcheth hold of every thing that is near, to stay it self upon. There is some bough or other a man would be catching hold of to rest upon; how hard is it to be brought quite off himself! The poor in spirit are divorced from themselves; they see they must to hell without Christ; My soul is even as a weaned child.
2. He that is poor in spirit, is a Christ-admirer; he