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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.
Use 2 LET me beseech all Christians to labour to be eminent in this superlative grace of meekness.1 Zeph. 2.3. Seek meekness: Seeking, implies we have lost it; therefore we must make an hue and cry after it to find it: Col. 3.12. Put on therefore as the Elect of God meekness; [Greek or Hebrew], Put it on as a garment, never to be left off. Meekness is a necessary ingredient into every thing. 1. It is necessary in instruction. 2 Tim. 2.25. In meekness instructing, &c. Meekness conquers the opposers of truth; meekness melts the heart; soft words are softening. 2. Meekness is necessary in hearing the Word. Jam. 1.21. Receive with meekness the ingrafted Word; he who comes to the Word either with passion or prejudice, gets no good, but hurt; he turns wine into poison, and stabs himself with the sword of the Spirit. 3. Meekness is needful in reproofs. Gal. 6.1. If a man be overtaken with a fault, restore such an one with the spirit of meekness. The Greek word is [Greek or Hebrew], put him in joint again; if a bone be out of joint, the Chirurgeon must not use a rough hand, that may chance break another bone; but he must come gently to work, and afterwards ⟨p. 143⟩bind it up softly; so if a brother be through inanimadvertency overtaken, we must not come to him in a fury of passion, but with a spirit of meekness labour to restore him. I shall lay down several Motives or Arguments to meeken the spirits of men.
Use 2 LET me beseech all Christians to labour to be eminent in this superlative grace of meekness.1 Zeph. 2.3. Seek meekness: Seeking, implies we have lost it; therefore we must make an hue and cry after it to find it: