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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. The fruit they bear is not so sweet. The Crab may bear fruit aswell as the Pearmain, but this excels in sweetness. The Hypocrite may pray, and give alms as well as a child of God, but there is difference in the fruit; the fruit of the Regenerate is mellow, it is sweetened with Faith, it is ripened with love. The Hypocrites fruit is sower and harsh, he doth not bring forth Pomegranates but Crabs, not Figs, but wild Grapes.
1. The fruit they bear is not so sweet. The Crab may bear fruit aswell as the Pearmain, but this excells in sweetness. The Hypocrite may pray, and give alms as well as a child of God, but there is difference in the fruit; the fruit of the Regenerate is mellow, it is sweetned with Faith, it is ripened with love. The Hypocrites fruit is sower and harsh, he doth not bring forth Pomgranates but Crabs, not Figs, but wild Grapes.
2. The seeming fruit of Hypocrites dyes, and comes to nothing: Joh. 15.6. He is cast forth as a branch, and is withered. The Hypocrites fruit is like the grass upon the house tops, which withereth before it groweth up, Psal. 129.6. Matth. 13.6.
3. Fruitfulness adorns a Christian; the Fruit adorns the Tree; a Fruit-bearing Christian is an Ornament to Religion; the more fruitful the branch is, the more fair to look on; Jer. 11.16. The Lord called thy name a green Olive-tree, fair, and of goodly fruit. A dead tree as it is unserviceable, so it is uncomely. A Christian decked with the Fruits of Righteousness, is beautiful and glorious. The fertile Christian is compared to the Lilly for pulchritude and fairness,