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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.
CHAP. I.
The Introduction into the ensuing Discourse.
THE blessed Evangelist Saint Matthew, the Penman of this Sacred History was at first by profession a Publican or gatherer of Toll*; and Christ having called him from the Custom-house, made him a gatherer of souls. This holy man in the first Chapter sets down ⟨p. 2⟩Christs birth and Genealogy; in the second his dignity; a Star ushers in the Wise men to him, and as a King he is presented with Gold and Frankincense and Myrrh, ver. 9, 11. In the third Chapter the Evangelist records his Baptism; in the fourth his tentations; in the fifth his preaching; which Chapter is like a rich mine, every vein hath some gold in it. There are four things in this Chapter which offer themselves to our view.
THE blessed Evangelist Saint Matthew, the Penman of this Sacred History was at first by profession a Publican or gatherer of Toll*; and Christ having called him from the Custom-house, made him a gatherer of souls. This holy man in the first Chapter sets down ⟨p. 2⟩Christs birth and Genealogy; in the second his dignity; a Starre ushers in the Wisemen to him, and as a King he is presented with Gold and Frankincense and Myrrhe, ver. 9, 11. In the third Chapter the Evangelist records his Baptisme; in the fourth his tentations; in the fifth his preaching; which Chapter is like a rich mine, every veine hath some gold in it. There are four things in this Chapter which offer themselves to our view.