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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.
4. Meekness is opposed to evil-speaking. Eph. 4.31. Let all evil-speaking be put away. Our words should be mild, like the waters of Siloah, which run softly; 'tis too usual for passionate spirits to break out into opprobrious language; the tongues of many are fired, and it is the Devil lights the match; therefore they are said in Scripture to be set on fire of hell, James 3.6. Men have learned of the old Serpent, to spit their venom one at another in disgraceful revilings. Matth. 5.22. Whosoever ⟨p. 137⟩shall say thou fool, shall be in danger of hell-fire. Under that word fool, all vilifying terms are by our Saviour forbidden; let us take heed of this, it is hateful to God, God is not in this fire, but in the still small voice*.
4. Meekness is opposed to evil-speaking. Eph. 4.31. Let all evil-speaking be put away. Our words should be mild, like the waters of Siloah, which run softly; 'tis too usual for passionate spirits to break out into opprobrious language; the tongues of many are fiered, and it is the Divel lights the match; therefore they are said in Scripture to be set on fire of hell, James 3.6. Men have learned of the old Serpent, to spit their venome one at another in disgraceful revilings. Matth. 5.22. Whosoever ⟨p. 137⟩shall say thou fool, shall be in danger of hell-fire. Under that word fool, all vilifying termes are by our Saviour forbidden; let us take heed of this, it is hateful to God, God is not in this fire, but in the still small voice*