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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.
1. The Connection, Grace and Peace. 1The way to ⟨p. 512⟩have peace, is to have grace; grace is the breeder of peace; the one is the root, the other the flower; peace is the sweet water that drops from the limbeck of a gracious heart.
1. The Connexion, Grace and Peace. 1The way to ⟨p. 512⟩have peace, is to have grace; grace is the breeder of peace; the one is the root, the other the flower; peace is the sweet water that drops from the limbeck of a gracious heart.
- 11. The Connection.1. The Connexion.
12. The Order. First grace, then peace; grace hath the priority: Grace and peace are two sisters, but grace is the elder sister*; and give me leave at this time to prefer the elder before the younger. — Grace unto you be multiplied. — For the illustration, consider 1. What is meant by grace. 2. The Author of it. 3. Why it is called grace. 4. The Cogency of it.
12. The Order. First grace, then peace; grace hath the priority: Grace and peace are two sisters, but grace is the elder sister*