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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 It perfumes our names. Hebr. 11.2. By faith the Elders obtained a good report: Grace was the spice which perfumed their names. How renowned was Abraham for his faith, Moses for his meekness, Phinehas for his zeal? what a fresh perfume do their names send forth to this day! The very wicked cannot but see a splendent Majesty in the graces of the Saints; and though with their tongues they revile grace, yet with their hearts they reverence it. Thus grace is aromatical, it embalms the names of men; a gracious person when he dies, carries a good conscience with him, and leaves a good name behind him.
1 It perfumes our names. Hebr. 11.2. By faith the Elders obtained a good report: Grace was the spice which perfumed their names. How renowned was Abraham for his faith, Moses for his meekness, Phineas for his zeal? what a fresh perfume do their names send forth to this day! The very wicked cannot but see a splendent Majesty in the graces of the Saints; and though with their tongues they revile grace, yet with their hearts they reverence it. Thus grace is aromatical, it embalms the names of men; a gracious person when he dies, carries a good conscience with him, and leaves a good name behinde him.
2. Grace perfumes our duties. Psal. 141.2. Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense. Noah's sacrifice was a perfume, Gen. 8.21. The Lord smelled a sweet savour. The sighs of a wicked man are an unsavoury breath, his solemn sacrifice is dung, Mal. 2.3. There is such a noisome stench comes from a sinners duties, that God will not come near.