A96093:1938
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. Wherein a Christians life is compared to a race. 2. Wherein the Christian race differs from other races. 3. Why this race must be run.
1. Wherein a Christians life is compared to a race; that appears in four particulars.
1. In a race there is the way or path to run in*; so in Christianity there is the path-way in which we must run. Psal. 119.32. I will run the way of thy Commandments, this is a good old way, Jer. 6.16. 'Tis as good as it is old. The way of sanctification and obedience, is the way the Saints have gone in, and the way which God hath been found in; this way we are to run in, is,
- *Stadium, locut erat in quo cursu c•rtabatur pedibus aut equis. Estius.