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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.
Excellency. 3 3. Grace hath a soul-adorning excellency, it puts a beauty and lustre upon a person. 1 Pet. 3.4, 5. Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plating the hair, and of wearing of gold, but let it be the hidden man of the heart, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price; for after this manner in the old time, the holy women also who trusted in God adorned themselves. If a man hath Plate and Jewels, Cloth of Gold, Hangings of Arras, these adorn the house, not the man; the glory of a man is grace*. Prov. 4.9. She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace. The graces are a Chain of pearl that adorns Christs Bride; the heart inlaid and enamelled with grace, is like the Kings daughter, all glorious within*, Psal. 45.13. A gracious soul is the image of God, curiously drawn with the Pencil of the Holy Ghost; an heart beautified with grace, is the Angels joy, Luke 15.7. and is Gods lesser heaven, Isa. 57.15. Eph. 3.17. Reason doth not so far exceed sense, as grace doth reason; grace changeth corruption into perfection; nothing so graceth a man as grace doth; grace is the purest complexion of the soul, for it makes it like God. Grace is the flower of delight which Christ loves to smell to; grace is to the soul, as the eye to the body, as the Sun to the world, as the Diamond to the Ring, it doth bespangle and beautify. A soul decked with grace, is as the Dove covered with silver wings and golden feathers.
Excellency. 3 3. Grace hath a soul-adorning excellency, it puts a beauty and lustre upon a person. 1 Pet. 3.4, 5. Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plating the hair, and of wearing of gold, but let it be the hidden man of the heart, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price; for after this manner in the old time, the holy women also who trusted in God adorned themselves. If a man hath Plate and Jewels, Cloth of Gold, Hangings of Arras, these adorn the house, not the man; the glory of a man is grace