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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.
Answ. Because God (who is the God of order) hath made the work of the Ministry a select distinct Office from any other. As in the body natural the members have a distinct office, the eye is to see, the hand to work; you may as well say, why should not the hand see as well as the eye? because God hath made the distinction, He hath put the visive faculty into the one, and not the other. So here, God hath made a distinction between the work of the Ministry and other work.
Quest. Where is this distinction?
Answ. 1. We find in Scripture a distinction between Pastor and People, 1. Pet. 5.2. The Elders (or Ministers) I exhort, Feed the flock of God which is among you. If any one may preach, by the same rule all may, and then what will become of the Apostles distinction? Where will the flock of God be if all be Pastors?
Answ. 1. We finde in Scripture a distinction between Pastor and People, 1. Pet. 5.2. The Elders (or Ministers) I exhort, Feed the flock of God which is among you. If any one may preach, by the same rule all may, and then what will become of the Apostles distinction? Where will the flock of God be if all be Pastors?