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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.
2. Knowledge alone will not save, therefore it will not make a man happy: if knowledge alone will save, then §2all that have knowledge shall be saved; but that is not ⟨p. 636⟩true, for then Judas should be saved, he had knowledge enough; then the Devil should be saved; he can transform himself into an Angel of light; he is called [Greek or Hebrew] from the great knowledge he hath, a man may have knowledge and be no better than a Devil; hell is full of learned heads; now if knowledge alone will not save, then it will not put a man into a state of blessedness.
2. Knowledg alone will not save, therefore it will not make a man happy: if knowledg alone will save, then §2all that have knowledg shall be saved; but that is not ⟨p. 636⟩true, for then Judas should be saved, he had knowledge enough; then the Divel should be saved; he can transform himself into an Angel of light; he is call'd 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 from the great knowledge he hath, a man may have knowledge and be no better than a Divel; hell is full of learned heads; now if knowledge alone will not save, then it will not put a man into a state of blessedness.
3. Knowledge alone makes a mans case worse, therefore it cannot make him happy.
1. Knowledge takes away all excuse and apology.