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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. 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?
2. God hath cut out the Minister his work which is proper for him, and doth not belong to any other. 1 Tim. 4.13. Give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine, give thy self wholly to them; or as it is in the Greek, [Greek or Hebrew], be thou wholly in them. This charge ⟨p. 5⟩is peculiar to the Minister, and doth not concern any other. It is not spoken to the Tradesman that he should give himself wholly to Doctrine and Exhortation, no, let him look to his shop; it is not spoken to the plough-man that he should give himself wholly to preaching, no, let him give himself to his plough. It is the Ministers charge; the Apostle speaks to Timothy, and in him, to the rest who had the hands of the Presbytery laid on them; and 2 Tim. 2.15. Study to show thy self approved, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, [Greek or Hebrew], rightly dividing the word of truth. This is spoken peculiarly to the Minister. Every one that can read the Word aright, cannot divide the Word aright. So that the work of the Ministry doth not lye in common, it is a select, peculiar work. As none might touch the Ark but the Priests; none may touch this Temple-office but such as are called to it.