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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.
2. This Crown of glory doth not draw envy to it. Davids own son envied him, and sought to take his Crown from his head. A Princely Crown is oftentimes the mark for envy and ambition to shoot at; but the Crown the Saints shall wear, is free from envy; one Saint shall not envy another, because all are crowned; and though one Crown may be larger than another, yet [Greek or Hebrew], every one shall have as big a Crown as he is able to carry.
2. This Crown of glory doth not draw envy to it. Davids own son envied him, and sought to take his Crown from his head. A Princely Crown is oftentimes the mark for envy and ambition to shoot at; but the Crown the Saints shall wear, is free from envy; one Saint shall not envy another, because all are crowned; and though one Crown may be larger than another, yet 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, every one shall have as big a Crown as he is able to carry.
3. This is a never-fading Crown. Corona haec non fit ex rosis aut gemmis*, &c. Other Crowns quickly wear away, and tumble into the dust, Prov. 27.4. Doth the Crown endure to all generations? Henry the sixth was honoured with the Crowns of two Kingdoms, France and England; the first was lost through the faction of his Nobles; the other was twice plucked from his head. The Crown hath many heirs and successors. The Crown is a withering thing; death is a worm that feeds in it; but the Crown of glory is immarcessible, it fadeth not away, 1 Pet. 5.4. 'Tis not like the Rose that loseth its gloss and vernancy; this Crown cannot be made to wither, but like the flower we call Semper vivens, it keeps always fresh and splendent. Eternity is a Jewel of the Saints Crown.
3. This is a never-fading Crown. Corona haec non fit ex rosis aut gemmis