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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.
11. The Preacher. Jesus Christ. The best of Preachers.
- 11. The Preacher.
He went up.] He, in whom there was a combination of virtues, a constellation of beauties; He whose lips were not only sweet as the honey-comb, but did drop as the honey-comb; his words an Oracle, his works a Miracle, his life a Pattern, his death a Sacrifice, He went up into a mountain and taught. Jesus Christ was every way ennobled and qualified for the work of the Ministry.
He went up.] He, in whom there was a combination of vertues, a constellation of beauties; He whose lips were not only sweet as the hony-comb, but did drop as the hony-comb; his words an Oracle, his works a Miracle, his life a Pattern, his death a Sacrifice, He went up into a mountain and taught. Jesus Christ was every way enobled and qualified for the work of the Ministry.
1. Christ was an intelligent Preacher. He had the Spirit without measure, John 3.34. and knew how to speak a word in due season, when to humble, when to comfort. We cannot know all the faces of our hearers, Christ knew the hearts of his hearers, He understood what Doctrine would best suit with them; as the husbandman can tell what sort of grain is proper for such a soil.
1. Christ was an intelligent Preacher. He had the Spirit without measure, John 3.34