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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. But if I forgive one injury, I shall invite more.
1. It argues a devilish nature to be worse for kindness; Object. 2 but suppose we should meet with such monsters, yet Answ. 1 it is our duty to be ready to forgive, Col. 3.13. Shall we cease from doing good, because others will not cease from being evil?
1. It argues a divellish nature to be worse for kindnesse; Object. 2 but suppose we should meet with such monsters, yet Answ. 1 it is our duty to be ready to forgive, Col. 3.13. Shall we cease from doing good, because others will not cease from being evil?
2. I answer, If the more thou forgivest injuries, the Answ. 2 ⟨p. 140⟩more injuries thou meetest with, this will make thy grace shine the more; another's vice will be a greater demonstration of thy virtue; often forgiving will add the more to the weight of his sin, and the weight of thy glory. If any shall say to me, I strive to excel in other graces; but as for this grace of meekness, bearing, and forgiving of injuries, I cannot arrive at it, I desire in this to be excused; What dost thou talk of other graces? where there is one grace, there is all*; if meekness be wanting, it is but a counterfeit chain of grace; thy faith is a fable, thy repentance is a lye, thy humility is hypocrisy.