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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.
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.
If you know these things, &c. by the word [Greek or Hebrew] [these things] our Saviour by a Synecdoche, comprehends all the matters of religion, though more particularly those two things he had been immediately before speaking of, love and humility.
If you know these things, &c. by the word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 [these things] our Saviour by a Synecdoche, comprehends all the matters of religion, though more particularly those two things he had been immediately before speaking of, love and humility.
In the Text there is 1. a Supposition, if ye know, and do.