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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. 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.
3. He taught them exemplo, by example, ver. 5. he poureth water into a Basin, and began to wash his disciples ⟨p. 633⟩feet: he teacheth them humility by his own example; he stoops to the meanest office: he washeth his disciples feet, and this he did for their imitation, ver. 14. ye ought also to wash one another's feet. Now our Lord Christ having thus taught his disciples, by Doctrine, Emblem, and Example, he makes as it were the Use of all in the words of the Text [Greek or Hebrew], If you know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.