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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.
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.
2. A benediction, happy are ye. Doctr. From whence this Doctrine ariseth, That it is not the Knowledge of the points of religion, but the Practice of them that makes a man happy. Had Christ said, if ye know these things happy are ye, and there had made a stop, and gone no further, we should have thought knowledge had been enough to have made one happy; but Christ stays not here, but goes further, happy are ye if ye do them; Christ doth not put happiness upon knowing, but doing. So that the Doctrine clearly results, That it is not knowledge but practice renders a man blessed.
2. A benediction, happy are ye. Doctr. From whence this Doctrine ariseth, That it is not the Knowledg of the points of religion, but the Practice of them that makes a man happy. Had Christ said, if ye know these things happy are ye, and there had made a stop, and gone no further, we should have thought knowledg had been enough to have made one happy; but Christ staies not here, but goes further, happy are ye if ye do them; Christ doth not put happiness upon knowing, but doing. So that the Doctrine clearly results, That it is not knowledg but practice renders a man blessed.