A96093:167
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.
1. 'Tis more pure. Other Crowns, though they may be made of pure gold, yet they are mixed metal, they have their troubles. A Crown of gold cannot be made without thorns*; it hath so many vexations belonging to it, that it is apt to make the head-ache. Which made Cyrus say, did men but know what cares he sustained under the Imperial Crown, ne humi diadema tollerent, he thought they would not stoop to take it up. But the Saints Crown is made without crosses; it is not mingled with care of keeping, or fear of losing. What Solomon speaks in another sense, I may say of the Crown of glory, it adds no sorrow with it2. This Crown like Davids Harp, drives away the evil spirit of sorrow and disquiet; there can be no more grief in heaven, than there is joy in hell.
1. 'Tis more pure. Other Crowns, though they may be made of pure gold, yet they are mixed mettal, they have their troubles. A Crown of gold cannot be made without thornes*; it hath so many vexations belonging to it, that it is apt to make the head-ache. Which made Cyrus say, did men but know what cares he sustained under the Imperial Crown, ne humi diadema tollerent, he thought they would not stoop to take it up. But the Saints Crown is made without crosses; it is not mingled with care of keeping, or fear of losing. What Solomon speaks in another sence, I may say of the Crown of glory, it addes no sorrow with it2. This Crown like Davids Harp, drives away the evil spirit of sorrow and disquiet; there can be no more grief in heaven, than there is joy in hell.
- *Non ita corona circundat caput, sicut animam sollicitudo.
- 2Prov. 10.22.