A96093:2160
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. Because newly purged from Pharisaical glosses; before it was love thy neighbour, but now it is love thy enemy, Matth. 5.44. here is a new Comment upon an old Law.
2. Love is said to be a new Commandment, because of a new Edition; it came out of the new mint of the Gospel, and was pressed by a new example; Joh. 13.34. As I have loved you; so that it is not Arbitrary, but a duty; 'tis a new Commandment and an old.
2. Love is said to be a new Commandement, because of a new Edition; it came out of the new mint of the Gospel, and was pressed by a new example; Joh. 13.34. As I have loved you; so that it is not Arbitrary, but a duty; 'tis a new Commandement and an old.
The second Argument enforcing love, is the excellency of this grace, it is a lovely grace;* all the other graces seem to be Eclipsed, unless love shine and sparkle forth in them. Faith itself hath no beauty unless it work by love; the tears of repentance are not pure unless they flow from the spring of love. Love is the Jewel Christs Bride wears, it is the Diamond in the ring of the graces; love is [Greek or Hebrew], as Chrysostom calls it. This is the grace that seasons all our actions and makes them savoury; love is aroma, amp; opo balsamum, it is like musk among linen which perfumes it. So love makes all our Religious services [Greek or Hebrew], a sweet Odour to God,