A96093:2076
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.
4. Relative graces do much beautify and set off a §4Christian: It is the beauty of a Star to shine in its proper Orb; Relative grace doth bespangle a Christian.
4. Relative graces do much beautifie and set off a §4Christian: It is the beauty of a Star to shine in its proper Orbe; Relative grace doth bespangle a Christian.
5. A good Christian brings forth seasonable fruit, Psal. 1.3. he that bringeth forth fruit [Greek or Hebrew] in his season, §5*every thing is beautiful in his time, Eccles. 3.11. That may be good at one time, which at another may be out of season. There is a great deal of skill in the right timing of a thing; duties of Religion must be performed in the fit juncture of time.
5. A good Christian brings forth seasonable fruit, Psal. 1.3. he that bringeth forth fruit 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 in his season, §5*every thing is beautiful in his time, Eccles. 3.11. That may be good at one time, which at another may be out of season. There is a great deale of skill in the right timing of a thing; duties of Religion must be perform'd in the fit juncture of time.