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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.
Use 2. Be Exhorted to cordial and fervent love; See that Use. 2 ye love one another. 1Oh that this sweet spice might send forth its fragrant smell among Christians! Oh that the Branch. 1 Lord would rain down some of these silver showers of love upon the hearts of Christians, which are for the most part like the Mountains of Gilboa which have none of this heavenly dew upon them. They say of the stones of the Temple they were so closely cemented as if there had been but one stone in the Temple; it were to be wished that the hearts of Christians were so sweetly cemented in love, as if there were but one heart.
- 1Exhort.
Let me commend this grace of amity and love to Christians under a double notion.
1. As you are members of a body politic. The whole nation is [Greek or Hebrew], a Political body; now it should be with the body Politic as it is with the natural body; all the members of the body have a sweet ⟨p. 628⟩sympathy, they all work for the good of the whole, that there be no Schism in the body, 1 Cor. 12.25. So it should be in the body politic.
1. As you are members of a body politick. The whole nation is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a Political body; now it should be with the body Politique as it is with the natural body; all the members of the body have a sweet