A96093:1945
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. In a race there is a Crown or Garland given to him that gets the better*; so in Religion, those that win the race, shall wear the Crown, 2 Tim. 4.8. Such as do not run through sloth, or will not run through pride, miss of the reward; but such as run the heavenly race faithfully, shall have a Crown, 2 Tim. 4.8. And this reward is fitly resembled to a Crown for the splendour of it; a Crown hung full of jewels, is bright and splendid, it gives an orient lustre; neither can pen describe, or pencil delineate, or tongue of Angel express the glory and magnificence of this Crown; nor can it be shadowed out by all the beauties of heaven, though every star were a Sun.
4. In a race there is a Crown or Garland given to him that gets the better*; so in Religion, those that win the race, shall wear the Crown, 2 Tim. 4.8. Such as do not run through sloth, or will not run through pride, miss of the reward; but such as run the heavenly race faithfully, shall have a Crown, 2 Tim. 4.8. And this reward is fitly resembled to a Crown for the splendor of it; a Crown hung full of jewels, is bright and splendid, it gives an orient lustre; neither can pen describe, or pensil delineate, or tongue of Angel express the glory and magnificence of this Crown; nor can it be shadowed out by all the beauties of heaven, though every star were a Sun.
- *Bravium significat praemium quod datur ijs qui ex certamine victores sunt; [Greek or Hebrew] legunt palmam. Ambr. Cypr. de Exhort. Martyr. cap. 8.Bravium significat praemium quod datur ijs qui ex certamine victores sunt; 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 legunt palmam. Ambr. Cypr. de Exhort. Martyr. cap. 8.