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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. That it is only the practic part of Religion makes a man happy: This is clear, if we consult either with Scripture or Reason.
2. That it is only the practick part of Religion makes a man happy: This is clear, if we consult either with Scripture or Reason.
1. It appears by Scripture; the Scripture knows no other way to happiness but practice; Psalm 15. ult. He that doth these things shall never be moved. [Greek or Hebrew] It is Calvins gloss upon the words, The Psalmist doth not say He that knows these things shall never perish, but He that doth them. To be a [Greek or Hebrew], a doer of the Word, entitles a man to blessedness: Jam. 1.25. This man shall be blessed in the deed: not [Greek or Hebrew], for his deed; (as ⟨p. 640⟩the Papists wrongly gloss) but [Greek or Hebrew], in his deed; obedience is rather an evidence of blessedness than a cause.
1. It appears by Scripture; the Scripture knows no other way to happiness but practice; Psalm 15. ult. He that doth these things shall never be moved. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 It is Calvins gloss upon the words, The Psalmist doth not say He that knows these things shall never perish, but He that doth them. To be a 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a doer of the Word, entitles a man to blessedness: Jam. 1.25. This man shall be blessed in the deed: not 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, for his deed; (as