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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
Appendix › The trees of Righteousness blossoming, and bringing forth fruit.
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.
3. A Christian brings forth kindly fruit. The godly §3man bringeth forth his fruit, Psal. 1.3. [Greek or Hebrew]. That is, he brings forth that fruit which is proper for him to bear. But what is this kindly and proper fruit? I answer, when we are good in our Callings and Relations: In a Magistrate, Justice is kindly fruit, Deut. 16.19. in a Minister, Zeal, Acts 17.•6. In a Parent, Instruction, Deut. 4.10. in a Child, Reverence, Ephes. 6.1. in a Master, good example, Gen. 18.19. Ephes. 6.9. in a servant, Obedience, 1 Pet. 2.18. in the Husband, Love, Ephes. 5.25. in the Wife, Submission, Ephes. 5.22. in a Tradesman, diligence, Exod. 20.9. in a Soldier, innocence, Luke 3.14. A tree of Gods planting brings forth [Greek or Hebrew] his fruit, that which is suitable and proper. I shall never believe him to be good, that doth not bear ⟨p. 594⟩kindly fruit; a good Christian, but a bad Master; a good Christian, but a bad Parent, doth not sound well. That Minister can no more be good which wants zeal, than that wine is good which wants spirits; that Magistrate can no more be good which wants Justice, than that Pillar is good which is not upright.