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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.
MATTH. 5.5. Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
CHAP. XII.
Concerning Christian meekness.
WE are now got to the third step leading in the way to blessedness, Christian meekness. [Greek or Hebrew], Blessed are the meek. See how the Spirit of God adorns the hidden man of the heart with multiplicity of graces The workmanship of the Holy Ghost is not only curious, but various; it makes the heart meek, pure, peaceable, &c. The graces therefore are compared to Needle-work, which is different and various in its flowers and colours*. In the words there is a duty, meekness; and that Duty like the Dove, brings an Olive-leaf in the mouth of it, They shall inherit the earth.
WE are now got to the third step leading in the way to blessedness, Christian meekness. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Blessed are the meek. See how the Spirit of God adorns the hidden man of the heart with multiplicity of graces The workmanship of the Holy Ghost is not only curious, but various; it makes the heart meek, pure, peaceable, &c. The graces therefore are compared to Needle-work, which is different and various in its flowers and colours