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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. Christ was a powerful Preacher, He spake with authority, Matth. 7.29. He could set mens sins before ⟨p. 3⟩them, and show them their very hearts, John 4.29. Come see a man which told me all things which ever I did. That is the best Glass not which is most richly set with Pearl, but which shows the truest face; Christ was a Preacher to the conscience, He breathed as much zeal as eloquence; he often touched upon the heart-strings. What is said of Luther, is more truly applicable to Christ, He spake as if he had been within a man. He could drive the wedge of his Doctrine in the most knotty piece; He was able with his two-edged sword to pierce an heart of stone. Never man spake like this man, John 7.46.
2. Christ was a powerful Preacher, He spake with authority, Matth. 7.29. He could set mens sinnes before ⟨p. 3⟩them, and show them their very hearts, John 4.29. Come see a man which told me all things which ever I did. That is the best Glasse not which is most richly set with Pearle, but which shows the truest face; Christ was a Preacher to the conscience, He breathed as much zeal as eloquence; he often touched upon the heart-strings. What is said of Luther, is more truly applicable to Christ, He spake as if he had been within a man. He could drive the wedge of his Doctrine in the most knotty piece; He was able with his two-edged sword to pierce an heart of stone. Never man spake like this man, John 7.46.