A96093:2235
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.
Search from one end of the Bible to the other, and you shall find the Crown still set upon the head of obedience. The Saints renowned of old have ever received their commendations and titles of honour from their obedience: Moses a man mighty in words and deeds, Acts. 7.22. Cornelius a man fearing God, giving much alms. When Christ pronounceth the sentence of absolution, see how it runs, Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom; for I was an hungered and ye gave me meat; thirsty, and ye gave me drink, Matth. 25.34, 35. Christ is not said at the last day to reward men according to their knowledge, but their deeds: Behold I come quickly, and my reward is with me to give every man according as his works shall be, Rev. 22.12. So then, if the Scripture that Mercurial rod points out no other way to happiness but practice, then it is in vain to expect it any way else.
Search from one end of the Bible to the other, and you shall find the Crown still set upon the head of obedience. The Saints renowned of old have ever received their commendations and titles of honour from their obedience: Moses a man mighty in words and deeds, Acts. 7.22. Cornelius a man fearing God, giving much alms. When Christ pronounceth the sentence of absolution, see how it runs, Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom; for I was an hungred and ye gave me meat; thirsty, and ye gave me drink, Matth. 25.34, 35. Christ is not said at the last day to reward men according to their knowledge, but their deeds: Behold I come quickly, and my reward is with me to give every man according as his works shall be, Rev. 22.12. So then, if the Scripture that Mercurial rod points out no other way to happiness but practice, then it is in vain to expect it any way else.