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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
Appendix › Christs various fullness.Appendix › Christs various fulness.
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.
2. You may love other things in the excess, but you cannot love Christ in the excess. MARY LOVED MUCH, Luke 7.47. but not too much; if Christ cannot be prized enough, he cannot be loved too much; the Angels in heaven cannot love Christ to his worth.
3. When you love other things, you love that which is worse than your selves; if you love a fair house, a pleasant garden, a curious picture, these things are worse than your selves; if I would love any thing more intensely and ardently, it should be something which is better than my self, and that is Jesus Christ. He who is all, let him have all; give him your love who desires it most, and deserves it best.
3. When you love other things, you love that which is worse than your selves; if you love a fair house, a pleasant garden, a curious picture, these things are worse than your selves; if I would love any thing more intensly and ardently, it should be something which is better than my self, and that is Jesus Christ. He who is all, let him have all; give him your love who desires it most, and deserves it best.
— Minus te amat qui aliquid tecum amat. —