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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.
1. An uncharitable person is an unregenerate person; Titus 3.3. We were sometimes disobedient, serving divers lusts, living [Greek or Hebrew], in malice and envy; as if he had said, Before grace came, we were filled, and ready to burst with this poison of malice; the Apostle describing a natural condition calls it the gall of bitterness, Acts 8. He that lives in bitter strife, is in the gall bitterness: A malicious person is of no a kin to God, for God is love; he knows nothing of the Gospel savingly, for it is a Gospel of peace; we read in Scripture of the bond of peace, Ephes. 4.3. and the bond of iniquity, Acts 8.23. him whom the Gospel hath not bound in the bond of peace, Satan hath bound in the bond of iniquity.
1. An uncharitable person is an unregenerate person; Titus 3.3. We were sometimes disobedient, serving divers lusts, living 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, in malice and envy; as if he had said, Before grace came, we were fill'd, and ready to burst with this poyson of malice; the Apostle describing a natural condition calls it the gall of bitterness, Acts 8. He that lives in bitter strife, is in the gall bitterness: A malitious person is of no a kin to God, for God is love; he knows nothing of the Gospel savingly, for it is a Gospel of peace; we read in Scripture of the bond of peace, Ephes. 4.3. and the bond of iniquity, Acts 8.23. him whom the Gospel hath not bound in the bond of peace, Satan hath bound in the bond of iniquity.