A96093:1929
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.
4. Sometimes a Christians work for heaven, is compared to the running of a race; so in the Text, Know ye not that they which run in a race, run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. In which words the Apostle seems to allude (as learned Writers observe) either to the Olympian games, which were kept every fifth year in honour of Jupiter, or to the Isthmian games celebrated near Corinth in the honour of Neptune, in which games they did put forth all their strength to win the prize. So saith the Apostle, Run the race of Christianity which is set before you with a winged swiftness, that ye may obtain the prize of salvation.
The words fall into two general parts.
1. The race to be run, [Greek or Hebrew], so run.
1. The race to be run, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, so run.
2. The end of running, [Greek or Hebrew], that ye may obtain.