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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.
And though I have all faith, so that I could remove Mountains] Were it not admirable to have the Faith of Miracles? to unhinge Mountains, to cast out Devils, to take up Serpents, and drink poison, and it should not hurt us? Matth. 16.16. Yet, if I have no charity I am nothing: Nullius sum pretij, I am of no account with God; the Miracles of faith without the mystery of love profit nothing.
And though I have all faith, so that I could remove Mountains] Were it not admirable to have the Faith of Miracles? to unhinge Mountains, to cast out Divels, to take up Serpents, and drink poison, and it should not hurt us? Matth. 16.16. Yet, if I have no charity I am nothing: Nullius sum pretij, I am of no account with God; the Miracles of faith without the mystery of love profit nothing.
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, ver. 3] Suppose I give away all my Estate in Alms, yet without love it avails me nothing; 'tis like a Lamp without Oil.
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, ver. 3] Suppose I give away all my Estate in Almes, yet without love it avails me nothing; 'tis like a Lamp without Oyle.
And though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it is nothing] the fire of Martyrdom avails not without the fire of Charity.