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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.
1. Bearing of injuries. 2. Forgiving of injuries. 3. Recompensing good for evil.
1. Bearing of injuries. 2. Forgiving of injuries. 3. Recompencing good for evil.
1. Meekness consists in bearing of injuries; I may say of this grace, it is not easily provoked; a meek spirit like wet Tinder, will not easily take fire. Psal. 38.12, 13. They that seek my hurt, spake mischievous things, but I as a deaf man heard not. Meekness is fraenum irae, the bridle of anger; the passions are fiery and headstrong, meekness gives check to them; meekness bridles the mouth, it ties the tongue to its good behaviour; meekness observes that Motto, [Greek or Hebrew], bear and forbear*. There are four things opposite to meekness.
1. Meekness consists in bearing of injuries; I may say of this grace, it is not easily provoked; a meek spirit like wet Tinder, will not easily take fire. Psal. 38.12, 13. They that seek my hurt, spake mischievous things, but I as a deaf man heard not. Meekness is fraenum irae, the bridle of anger; the passions are fiery and headstrong, meekness gives check to them; meekness bridles the mouth, it tyes the tongue to its good behaviour; meekness observes that Motto, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, bear and forbear*. There are four things opposite to meekness.
- *Epictetus.