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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. God the Holy Ghost is love, his appearing in the likeness of a Dove showed his nature; the Dove saith Pliny, is an amicable creature, it is without gall; what are all the motions of the Spirit but tenders of love? what is the Zeal of the Spirit but the print of love? why doth this blessed Spirit as a suitor come a wooing to sinners, but that they may know he is in love? thus all the persons in the Trinity are love; and the more we shine in the grace of Love, the more we resemble the God of Love.
3. God the Holy Ghost is love, his appearing in the likeness of a Dove show'd his nature; the Dove saith Pliny, is an amicable creature, it is without gall; what are all the motions of the Spirit but tenders of love? what is the Zeal of the Spirit but the print of love? why doth this blessed Spirit as a suitor come a woing to sinners, but that they may know he is in love? thus all the persons in the Trinity are love; and the more we shine in the grace of Love, the more we resemble the God of Love.
6. Argument enforcing love, is from the sweet Relations we stand in one to another; we are [Greek or Hebrew] fellow-Citizens, Ephes. 2.19. we all expect one heaven; we shall shortly live together, and shall we not love together? we are soldiers of the same band, 2 Tim. 2.3. ours must be the fight of faith, not the fight of contention; our strife must be who shall love most; we are branches of the same Vine, and shall we not be united? we are stones of the same building, and shall we not be cemented with love? nay we are brethren, Acts 7.26. Sirs, ye are brethren, why do ye wrong one to another?
6. Argument enforcing love, is from the sweet Relations we stand in one to another; we are 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 fellow-Citizens,