A96093:2012
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.
Here a Question may be moved, how hope differs from Faith?
Answer; These two graces, [Greek or Hebrew], Faith and Hope are so like, that they have been taken one for the other; there is such a near affinity between them that (saith Luther) it is hard to find a difference: But though they are placed near together as the two wings of the Cherubims on the Mercy-seat, yet they are not the same. Indeed, in some things Faith and Hope do agree; both feed upon the Promise; both help to support the soul in trouble: Faith and Hope are like two bladders put under a Christian, which keep him from sinking in the waters of affliction; both of these graces like cordial-water comfort the fainting soul: There is joy in believing, Rom. 15.13. Rejoicing in hope, Rom. 5.2. Faith and Hope like those two golden Pipes, Zach. 4.12. empty their golden Oil of joy into a Christian; but though in some things these two graces agree, and are alike, yet in some things they differ.
Answer; These two graces, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Faith and Hope are so like, that they have been taken one for the other; there is such a near affinity between them that (saith Luther) it is hard to find a difference: But though they are placed near together as the two wings of the Cherubims on the Mercy-seat, yet they are not the same. Indeed, in some things Faith and Hope do agree; both feed upon the Promise; both help to support the soul in trouble: Faith and Hope are like two bladdars put under a Christian, which keep him from sinking in the waters of affliction; both of these graces like cordial-water comfort the fainting soul: There is joy in believing, Rom. 15.13. Rejoycing in hope, Rom. 5.2