A96093:1980
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. 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 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, beat down his body, 1 Cor. 9.27. that he might be the fitter for his race.
2. Strip your selves for the race; the runner in a race useth to strip himself of all about him, and wear only a white garment that he might be light and nimble; So should Christians do, strip themselves of all conceits of merit, and only wear the white garment of Christs Righteousness.
3. Begin the race betimes: Eccles. 12.1.