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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.
That he may extol this grace,
That he may extoll this grace,
1. First, he doth it exclusive, he shows that the most glorious things are nothing without it*. Si desit charitas, frustra habentur coetera: • Cor. 13.1. Though I speak with the tongues of men] If a man could speak in so many Languages as Mithridates, of whom it is said he understood 22. sundry Tongues; if he had the golden mouth of Chrysostom, if he could do with his Oratory, as the Poets fain Orpheus did with his Harp, move the very Rocks and stones, yet without love it were nothing.
- *Aug.
Nay, saith the Apostle, though I speak [Greek or Hebrew], with the tongues of Angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or as a tinkling Cymbal] Were it not a brave thing to have the eloquence of Angels? yet this without love were but Cymbalum tinniens, the tinkery of the Cymbal; to love as Christians, is better than to speak as Angels.
Nay, saith the Apostle, though I speak 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, with the tongues of Angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or as a tinkling Cymbal] Were it not a brave thing to have the eloquence of Angels? yet this without love were but Cymbalum tinniens, the tinkery of the Cymbal; to love as Christians, is better than to speak as Angels.