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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. That Knowledge alone in the mysteries of religion, will not make a man happy.
1. That Knowledg alone in the mysteries of religion, will not make a man happy.
2. That it is the Practic part of religion makes a man happy.
2. That it is the Practique part of religion makes a man happy.
11. That Knowledge alone in the mysteries of religion will not make a man happy. Mat. 7.21. Luk. 6.46. Why call ye me Lord Lord, and do not the things which I say? It is not the [Greek or Hebrew] the speculation of the most glorious truths can bring a man to heaven: If a man could discourse de omni scibili, if his head were [Greek or Hebrew] a Treasury of wisdom, an Ocean of learning, as it is said Hyperbolically of Albinus, Beringarius, Hermolaus Barbarus and others, yet this could not entitle him to happiness: his knowledge might make him admired, but not blessed. If a man knew all the policies of State, the mysteries of Trade, the subtlety of Arts, the system of Divinity, all this could not crown him with happiness.
11. That Knowledg alone in the mysteries of religion will not make a man happy.