A96093:202
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.
And that you may act more vigorously for God, know, and be assured, the more work you do, the more glory you shall have: Every Saint shall have a Kingdom; but the more service any man doth for God, the greater will be his Kingdom; there are degrees of glory*; which I prove thus:
- *Sicut varie Deus sua dona sanctis in hoc mundo distribuens, eos inaequaliter irradiat; ita in caelis patet non fore aequalem gloriae modum. Calv. l. 3. Instit.
1. Because there are degrees of torments in hell; Luk. 20. ult. They shall receive greater damnation: [Greek or Hebrew]. They who do make Religion a cloak for their sin, shall have an hotter place in hell: Now if there be degrees of torment in hell, then by the rule of contraries there are degrees of glory in the Kingdom of heaven.
1. Because there are degrees of torments in hell; Luk. 20. ult. They shall receive greater damnation: 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. They who do make Religion a cloak for their sin, shall have an hotter place in hell: Now if there be degrees of torment in hell, then by the rule of contraries there are degrees of glory in the Kingdom of heaven.
2. Seeing God in his free-grace rewards men according to their works, therefore the more service they do, the greater shall their reward be.