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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.
3. In civil debts between man and man, the more they pay, the less they have; but in this debt of love it is quite contrary; the more we pay, the more we have; the more grace from God, the more love from others; love like the widows oil increaseth by pouring out; by paying other debts we grow poor, by paying this debt we grow richer.
3. In civil debts between man and man, the more they pay, the less they have; but in this debt of love it is quite contrary; the more we pay, the more we have; the more grace from God, the more love from others; love like the widdows oyle encreaseth by pouring out; by paying other debts we grow poor, by paying this debt we grow richer.
5. Love makes us like God, God is love, 1 Joh. 4.16. a golden sentence? Austin saith, the Apostle doth more commend love in this one word, God is love, than Saint Paul doth in his whole Chapter; as the nature of the Sun is light, so Gods nature is love: The three persons in the Trinity are all love.
1. God the Father is love; Joh. 3.16. God so loved the world; that God should part with Christ out of his bosom, the Son of his love, and lay this jewel as it were to pawn for our salvation, oh unparalleled love! never was such love showed to the Angels.
1. God the Father is love; Joh. 3.16. God so loved the world; that God should part with Christ out of his bosome, the Son of his love, and lay this jewel as it were to pawn for our salvation, oh unparalleld love! never was such love showed to the Angels.