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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.
Consider the ill consequence where love is wanting; the absence of this grace brings forth divisions, and they are dangerous; For
1. Divisions bring an opprobrium, and scandal upon Religion, they make the ways of God evil spoken of, as if Religion were the fomenter of envy and sedition. Julian in his Invectives against the Christians, said, that they lived together as Tigers, rending and tearing one another; and shall we by our animosities, and contentions make good Julians words? this will make others afraid to embrace the Christian Faith. There is a story in Epiphanius ⟨p. 627⟩of Miletius, and Peter Bishop of Alexandria, both Confessors of the Orthodox Religion, both condemned to suffer; who being together in prison, upon a small difference sell into so great a Schism, that they drew a partition between each other in the prison, and would not hold communion in the same worship of Christ, for which notwithstanding they both suffered, which division grew scandalous, and did more hurt than their persecution did good.
1. Divisions bring an opprobrium, and scandal upon Religion, they make the wayes of God evil spoken of, as if Religion were the fomenter of envy and sedition. Julian in his Invectives against the Christians, said, that they lived together as Tigers, rending and tearing one another; and shall we by our animosities, and contentions make good Julians words? this will make others affraid to embrace the Christian Faith. There is a story in Epiphanius ⟨p. 627⟩of Miletius, and Peter Bishop of Alexandria, both Confessors of the Orthodox Religion, both condemned to suffer; who being together in prison, upon a small difference sell into so great a Schisme, that they drew a partition between each other in the prison, and would not hold communion in the same worship of Christ, for which notwithstanding they both suffered, which division grew scandalous, and did more hurt than their persecution did good.