A96093:1951
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.
5. In other races men run for a temporal reward; in the Christian race we run for an eternal; others run for a corruptible Crown, 1 Cor. 9.25. Sometimes the Crown bestowed ⟨p. 561⟩upon the Victor, was made of Olive, sometimes of Myrtle; the Egyptians had a Crown of Cinnamon enclosed in gold, but still it was corruptible; but the Crown the Saints run for is incorruptible, it is a never-fading Crown, 1 Pet. 5.4. Other Crowns are like a Garland of flowers, that soon withers, Prov. 27.4. But this Crown given to the conquering Christian, is immarcessible*; the jewels of this Crown are never lost, the flowers of it never fade.
5. In other races men run for a temporal reward; in the Christian race we run for an eternal; others run for a corruptible Crown, 1 Cor. 9.25. Sometimes the Crown bestowed ⟨p. 561⟩upon the Victor, was made of Olive, sometimes of Myrtle; the Aegyptians had a Crown of Cinnamon enclosed in gold, but still it was corruptible; but the Crown the Saints run for is incorruptible, it is a never-fading Crown, 1 Pet. 5.4. Other Crowns are like a Garland of flowers, that soon withers, Prov. 27.4. But this Crown given to the conquering Christian, is immarcessible*; the jewels of this Crown are never lost, the flowers of it never fade.
- *Corona haec nofi sit aut gemmis, flores isti ex quibu tur semper viidescunt repullulant semper.