A96093:2191
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.
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, Ephes. 2.19. we all expect one heaven; we shall shortly live together, and shall we not love together? we are souldiers 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?
Use 1. I might here take up a lamentation, and steep my Use 1 words in tears to consider the decay, I had almost said the funerals of this grace among Christians; — Terras Astraea reliquit— the fire of brotherly love is almost ready to go out; instead of the fire of love, the wildfire of passion. I have read of one Vitalis who hazarded his life to succour