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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.
In a fruitful hill] in the Hebrew it is [Greek or Hebrew] the horn of the son of oil, or, the son of fatness, that is in a very fat, rich soil. So may God say to us, I have planted you in an hilly place, you have been higher than the Nations round about you, you have been even lifted up to heaven with Ordinances; the Sunbeams of mercies, and Sihon's silver drops have fallen upon you; but where is your fruit? your enjoyments are great, but what are your improvements? whom God finds without fruit, he leaves without excuse.
In a fruitful hill] in the Hebrew it is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 the horn of the son of oyle, or, the son of fatness, that is in a very fat, rich soil. So may God say to us, I have planted you in an hilly place, you have been higher than the Nations round about you, you have been even lifed up to heaven with Ordinances; the Sunbeams of mercies, and Sihons silver drops have fallen upon you; but where is your fruit? your enjoyments are great, but what are your improvements? whom God finds without fruit, he leaves without excuse.
3. They that do not bring forth good fruit, shall never taste of the fruits that grow in heaven. Heaven is the Garden of God, the Paradise of pleasure where the most rare delicious fruits grow; there are fruits that the Angels themselves delight to feed on; it may be said of those Celestial fruits, as Cant. 4.13. Thy Plants are an Orchard of Pomegranates with pleasant fruits, Camphire, and Spikenard, Saffron, Calamus, and Cinnamon, with all trees of Frankincense, Myrrh, and Aloes, with all the chief spices, or as it is in the Original, the head of the spices. How Aromatical and fragrant are those fruits which grow in the heavenly Jerusalem? now if you do not bring God your fruit, you shall never taste his fruit: you that do not bring forth the fruits of Righteousness, shall never taste the fruits of Paradise. Oh present Christ with your sweet spices, give him your Myrrh,