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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
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. Love purely, that is opposed to Hypocrisy: Love must be with the heart; it must not be a complement, which is like a painted fire; dissembled love is worse than hatred.
1. Love purely, that is opposed to Hypocrisie: Love must be with the heart; it must not be a complement, which is like a painted fire; dissembled love is worse than hatred.
2. Love fervently, that is opposed to Neutrality; love must flame forth, it must not be as the smoking flax, but as a burning Lamp; so much the Hebrew word for love [Greek or Hebrew] imports an ardent and zealous affection*, no waters must quench it.
2. Love fervently, that is opposed to Neutrality; love must flame forth, it must not be as the smoaking flax, but as a burning Lamp; so much the Hebrew word for love 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 imports an ardent and zelous affection*, no waters must quench it.
- *Ardens & vehemens affectio.
Doctr. Christians must love one another cordially, and fervently; Col. 3.14. Above all these things put on charity.