A96093:1997
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. Intra, if we turn our eyes inward and behold •ur sins. This made Paul himself cry out, O wretched man that I am, Rom. 7.24. A Christian hath two men within him; flesh and Spirit; this may make him look for that blessed hope, when he shall be disentangled of his sins, and shall be as the Angels of God.
1. Intra, if we turn our eyes inward and behold •ur sins. This made Paul himself cry out, O wretched man that I am, Rom. 7.24. A Christian hath two men within him; flesh and Spirit; this may make him look for that blessed hope, when he shall be disintangled of his sins, and shall be as the Angels of God.
2. If we look Extra, if we cast our eyes abroad, the world is but our sojourning-house, it is a Stage whereon ⟨p. 575⟩vanity and vexation act their part, and the Scene seldom alters: Depart, this is not your rest, Mich. 2.10. all which considered, may make us look for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour.
In which words there is, 1. The Act, looking. 2. The Object; which is set down,