A96093:2175
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.
3. Charity seeketh not her own, ver. 5. The Apostle complains, Phil. 2.21. All men seek their own, but love seeketh not her own. This is a diffusive grace, and wholly spends it self for the good of others, 1 Cor. 10.33. It is reported of Pompey that when there was a great dearth in Rome, Pompey having provided great store of corn abroad and shipped it, the Mariners being backward in hoisting up sail by reason of a tempest, Pompey himself sets forward in the storm, using these words, Better a few of us perish than that Rome should not be relieved*; here was public spirit! love seeks not her own; it makes a private Christian a common good. Love is a grace that dwells not at home, it goes abroad, it makes frequent visits, it looks into the condition of others and relieves them*. Love hath one eye blind, to wink at the infirmities of others, and another eye open to spy their wants.
3. Charity seeketh not her own, ver. 5. The Apostle complains, Phil. 2.21. All men seek their own, but love seeketh not her own. This is a diffusive grace, and wholly spends it self for the good of others, 1 Cor. 10.33. It is reported of Pompey that when there was a great dearth in Rome, Pompey having provided great store of corn abroad and ship'd it, the Mariners being backward in hoysing up sail by reason of a tempest, Pompey himself sets forward in the storm, using these words, Better a few of us perish than that Rome should not be relieved*; here was publick spirit! love seeks not her own; it makes a private Christian a common good. Love is a grace that dwells not at home, it goes abroad, it makes frequent visits, it looks into the condition of others and relieves them*