A96093:2197
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.
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 ⟨p. 628⟩sympathy, they all work for the good of the whole, that there be no Schisme in the body, 1 Cor. 12.25. So it should be in the body politique.
2. You are membra Ecclesiae, members of the Church of God, you bear Christs Name, you wear his Livery, therefore you must be soldered together in affection. It is a sad Omen and presage, when the joints of the same body shall be loosed, and the knees shall smite one against another.