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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. Meekness towards man; this Basil the great calls the indelible Character of a gracious soul; Beati Mites, Blessed are the meek. To illustrate this, I shall show ⟨p. 132⟩what this [Greek or Hebrew], or meekness is. Meekness is a grace whereby we are enabled by the Spirit of God to moderate our passion. 1. In is a grace.] The Philosopher calls it a virtue*; but the Apostle calls it a grace, therefore reckons it among the fruits of the Spirit, Gal. 5.23. it is of a Divine Extract and Original. 2. By it we are enabled to moderate ou• passion.] By nature the heart is like a troubled Sea, casting forth the foam of anger and wrath; now meekness doth calm the passions; it sits as Moderator in the soul, quieting and giving check to its distempered motions; 'tis [Greek or Hebrew]. as the Moon doth serve to temper and allay the heat of the Sun; so Christian meekness doth allay the heat of passion; meekness of Spirit doth not only fit us for communion with God, but civil converse with men; and thus prae omnibus virtutibus principatum tenet*. Meekness hath a divine beauty and sweetness in it; it credits Religion, it wins upon all; this meekness consists in three things.
2. Meekness towards man; this Basil the great calls the indelible Character of a gracious soul; Beati Mites, Blessed are the meek. To illustrate this, I shall shew ⟨p. 132⟩what this 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, or meekness is. Meekness is a grace whereby we are enabled by the Spirit of God to moderate our passion. 1. In is a grace.] The Philosopher calls it a vertue*; but the Apostle calls it a grace, therefore reckons it among the fruits of the Spirit,