A96093:1791
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. These riches make a man wise; wisdom is the best possession*; other riches cannot make one wise. A man may ditescere & delirare, he may have a full purse, and an empty brain. Many a rich heir, though he lives till he be of age, yet he never comes to years of discretion: But these riches of grace have power to make a man wise. Psal. 111.10. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. The Saints are compared to wise Virgins, Matth. 25. Grace makes a man wise to know Satan's [Greek or Hebrew], his devices and subtleties, 2 Cor. 2.11. It makes him wise to salvation, 2 Tim. 3.15. Grace gives the Serpents eye in the Doves head.
1. These riches make a man wise; wisdom is the best possession*; other riches cannot make one wise. A man may ditescere & delirare, he may have a full purse, and an empty brain. Many a rich heir, though he lives till he be of age, yet he never comes to years of discretion: But these riches of grace have power to make a man wise. Psal. 111.10. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. The Saints are compared to wise Virgins, Matth. 25. Grace makes a man wise to know Satans 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, his devices and subtilties, 2 Cor. 2.11. It makes him wise to salvation, 2 Tim. 3.15. Grace gives the Serpents eye in the Doves head.
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