A96093:2202
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.
2. Uncharitableness is a leaven that sours the whole lump, 1 Cor. 5.8.
2. Uncharitableness is a leaven that sowres the whole lump, 1 Cor. 5.8.
1. It sours your good qualities; Naaman an honourable man, a mighty man in valour, but he was a Leper, 2 King. 5.1. that but was like a dead fly in the Ointment, it spoiled all the rest. So it may be said, Such a man is a man of parts, a man of great moral endowments, he is just, affable, temperate, but he is a leper, he will not be in charity; he pays every one their own, but there ⟨p. 629⟩is one debt he will not pay though he rot in hell for it, (viz.) the debt of love; this is a [Greek or Hebrew], a brand of infamy upon him.
1. It sowres your good qualities; Naaman an honourable man, a mighty man in valour, but he was a Leper, 2 King. 5.1. that but was like a dead fly in the Oyntment, it spoiled all the rest. So it may be said, Such a man is a man of parts, a man of great moral endowments, he is just, affable, temperate, but he is a leper, he will not be in charity; he payes every one their own, but there ⟨p. 629⟩is one debt he will not pay though he rot in hell for it, (viz.) the debt of love; this is a 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a brand of infamy upon him.