A96093:1983
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. Run the path-way, not the road-way; hell-road is full of travellers; most go wrong; Exod. 23.2. Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; the multitude doth not consider what is best, but what is safest; our Saviour hath told us, narrow is the way which leadeth unto life, Mat. 7.14. run in the narrow way of self-denial, and mortification.
5. Resolve to hold on in the race notwithstanding dangers and difficulties: A good Christian must be steeled with courage, and fired with zeal: 'tis probable there will be thorns in the way of our race, and flint-stones, therefore we had need be well shod.
1. We must be shod with the Gospel of peace, Ephes. 6.15. he whose heart is filled with that peace the Gospel brings, will be able to run over the hardest piece of Religion with ease.
1. We must be shod with the Gospel of peace, Ephes. 6.15. he whose heart is fil'd with that peace the Gospel brings, will be able to run over the hardest piece of Religion with ease.