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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.
2. It reproves such as bring forth evil fruit. They Branch. 2 are not trees of the Garden, but the Wilderness; their hearts are a fruitful soil for sin, they bring forth pride, malice, Superstition; some of their hellish and bitter fruits are mentioned, Gal. 5.20, 21. Adultery, Idolatry, Witchcraft, Hatred, Variance, Emulations, Seditions, Heresies, &c. These are wild grapes, Isa. 5.2. Grapes of gall, Deut. 32.32. Fruit unto death, Rom. 7.5. these are Trees of the Devils planting; let not that man say his heart is good, who bears such fruit. One may as well say, though the Crab bear sower fruit, it hath a sweet Root; bad fruit shows a rotten heart*. — Fructus indicat arborem.
2. It reproves such as bring forth evil fruit. They Branch. 2 are not trees of the Garden, but the Wilderness; their hearts are a fruitful soil for sin, they bring forth pride, malice, Superstition; some of their hellish and bitter fruits are mentioned, Gal. 5.20, 21. Adultery, Idolatry, Witchcraft, Hatred, Variance, Emulations, Seditions, Heresies, &c. These are wild grapes, Isa. 5.2. Grapes of gall, Deut. 32.32. Fruit unto death, Rom. 7.5. these are Trees of the Divels planting; let not that man say his heart is good, who bears such fruit. One may as well say, though the Crab bear sower fruit, it hath a sweet Root; bad fruit shows a rotten heart*. — Fructus indicat arborem.
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