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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.
Caution 2 2. Though revenge be contrary to meekness, yet not but that a Magistrate may revenge the quarrels of others; indeed 'tis not revenge in him, but doing justice: The Magistrate is Gods Lieutenant on earth; God hath put the sword in his hand, and he is not to bear the sword in vain; he must be in terrorem, for the punishment of evil doers, 1 Pet. 2.14. Though a private person must not render to any man evil for evil, Rom. 12.17. yet a Magistrate may; the evil of punishment for the evil of offence; this rendering of evil is good. Private men must put their sword into the sheath; but the Magistrate sins if he doth not draw it out: As his sword must not surfeit through cruelty, so neither must it rust through partiality: Too much lenity in a Magistrate, is not meekness, but injustice; for him to indulge offences, and say with a gentle reproof as Eli, 1 Sam. 2.23, 24. Why do you such things? nay, my sons, for it is no good report that I hear. This is but to shave the head that deserves to be cut off; such a Magistrate makes himself guilty.
Caution 2 2. Though revenge be contrary to meekness, yet not but that a Magistrate may revenge the quarrels of others; indeed 'tis not revenge in him, but doing justice: The Magistrate is Gods Lieutenant on earth; God hath put the sword in his hand, and he is not to bear the sword in vain; he must be in terrorem, for the punishment of evil doers, 1 Pet. 2.14. Though a private person must not render to any man evil for evil, Rom. 12.17. yet a Magistrate may; the evil of punishment for the evil of offence; this rendring of evil is good. Private men must put their sword into the sheath; but the Magistrate sins if he doth not draw it out: As his sword must not surfeit through cruelty, so neither must it rust through partiality: Too much lenity in a Magistrate, is not meekness, but injustice; for him to indulge offences, and say with a gentle reproof as Eli, 1 Sam. 2.23, 24. Why do you such things? nay, my sons, for it is no good report that I hear. This is but to shave the head that deserves to be cut off; such a Magistrate makes himself guilty.