A96093:1978
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. Run the right race, the Apostle calls it [Greek or Hebrew], the race set before us, Hebr. 12.1. that is the race chalked out in the Word of God; the race of self-denial and sanctity. 'Tis not any race, but the race set before us, that we must run; which confutes that opinion, that a man must be saved in any Religion.
1. Run the right race, the Apostle calls it 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the race set before us, Hebr. 12.1. that is the race chal'kd out in the Word of God; the race of selfdenial and sanctity. 'Tis not any race, but the race set before us, that we must run; which confutes that opinion, that a man must be saved in any Religion.
2. Fit your selves for the heavenly race; as
1. Diet your selves; the Racers in Ancient times, saith Ireneus, did diet themselves, they would not eat of any gross meat, nor yet a full meal, that they might be the more prepared for the race; thus must Christians diet themselves by sobriety and mortification, that they may by a well ordering of themselves be the fitter to run the race which is set before them. St. Paul did [Greek or Hebrew], beat down his body, 1 Cor. 9.27. that he might be the fitter for his race.
1. Diet your selves; the Racers in Ancient times, saith Ireneus, did diet themselves, they would not eat of any gross meat, nor yet a full meale, that they might be the more prepared for the race; thus must Christians diet themselves by sobriety and mortification, that they may by a well ordering of themselves be the fitter to run the race which is set before them. St. Paul did , beat down his body,