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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.
IN this Chapter our Blessed Saviour, the great Doctor of the Church, falls upon teaching his Disciples; he taught them
IN this Chapter our Blessed Saviour, the great Doctor af the Church, falls upon teaching his Disciples; he taught them
1. Doctrinâ, by doctrine, ver. 34. A new Commandment give I unto you, that ye love one another. Christ was now going out of the world; and as a father when he is dying leaves a charge with his children that they love; so our Saviour leaves this solemn charge with his disciples, that they did love one another.
1. Doctrinâ, by doctrine, ver. 34. A new Commandement give I unto you, that ye love one another. Christ was now going out of the world; and as a father when he is dying leaves a charge with his children that they love; so our Saviour leaves this solemn charge with his disciples, that they did love one another.
2. He taught them emblemate, by emblem, ver. 4. he took a Towel and girded himself. Thus teaching them by a sacred emblem, how he did begirt himself with with our flesh: the blessed angels stood wondering at this, how the divine nature could be girdled with the humane.
2. He taught them emblemate, by embleam, ver. 4. he took a Towel and girded himself. Thus teaching them by a sacred embleam, how he did begirt himself with with our flesh: the blessed angels stood wondring at this, how the divine nature could be girdled with the humane.