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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.
1. Do it privately: Matth. 18.15. Go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone.
2. Do it when thou seest him in the best temper, not when his passions are up; that were pouring oil on the flame; but when his spirit is meekened and calmed; you put the seal on the wax when it is soft and pliable; there is a time when mens spirits are more flexible and yielding; now is the fittest season to stamp a Reproof upon them, and it is likelyest to take impression. When Abigail reproved Nabal, it was in the right season; not when he was in wine, but when he was in his wits, and was fit to hear a Reproof, 1 Sam. 25.37.
2. Do it when thou seest him in the best temper, not when his passions are up; that were pouring oyle on the flame; but when his spirit is meekned and calm'd; you put the seal on the wax when it is soft and plyable; there is a time when mens spirits are more flexible and yielding; now is the fittest season to stamp a Reproof upon them, and it is likelyest to take impression. When Abigail reproved Nabal, it was in the right season; not when he was in wine, but when he was in his wits, and was fit to hear a Reproof, 1 Sam. 25.37.
3. Another season for Reproof is in the time of affliction: Affliction tames mens spirits, and now a word of Reproof spoken prudentially may work with the affliction; a bitter potion is not refused if in case of extremity of pain. Affliction opens the ear to Discipline