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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.
5. Another means to fruitfulness, is humility. The low grounds are most fruitful: The Valleys are covered with Corn, Psal. 65.13. The humble heart is the fruitful heart. It is observed in some Countries, as in France, that the best and largest Grapes which they make their wine of, grow upon the lower sort of Vines. The largest and fairest Fruits of the Spirit grow in a lowly Christian: 1 Pet. 5.5. God gives grace to the humble. St. Paul calls himself the least of Saints, yet he was the chief of the Apostles. The Virgin Mary was low in her own eyes, Luke 1.48. but this lowly Plant did bear that blessed Vine which brought the Fruit of salvation to the world.
5. Another means to fruitfulness, is humility. The low grounds are most fruitful: The Valleys are covered with Corn, Psal. 65.13. The humble heart is the fruitful heart. It is observed in some Countreys, as in France, that the best and largest Grapes which they make their wine of, grow upon the lower sort of Vines. The largest and fairest Fruits of the Spirit grow in a lowly Christian: 1 Pet. 5.5. God gives grace to the humble. St. Paul calls himself the least of Saints, yet he was the chief of the Apostles. The Virgin Mary was low in her own eyes, Luke 1.48. but this lowly Plant did bear that blessed Vine which brought the Fruit of salvation to the world.
6. If you would be fruitful in grace, be much in good conference: Mal. 3.16. Then they that feared the Lord