A96093:2214
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.
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.
3. He taught them exemplo, by example, ver. 5. he poureth water into a Bason, 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 anothers feet. Now our Lord Christ having thus taught his disciples, by Doctrine, Embleam, and Example, he makes as it were the Use of all in the words of the Text 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, If you know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
A text that deserves to be engraven in letters of gold upon our hearts; a text, that if well observed, will help us to reap benefit by all other texts. A Sermon is never heard a right till it be practised: I shall therefore make this Sermon to be by the blessing of God as a selvage to keep the rest from ravelling out. That were an happy Sermon which would help you to put all the other Sermons you have heard in practice.
A text that deserves to be engraven in letters of gold upon our hearts; a text, that if well observed, will help us to reap benefit by all other texts. A Sermon is never heard a right till it be practised: I shall therefore make this Sermon to be by the blessing of God as a selvidg to keep the rest from ravelling out. That were an happy Sermon which would help you to put all the other Sermons you have heard in practice.