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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. Let us set before our eyes the examples of some of the Saints who have shined in this grace. Moses was a man of unparalleled meekness. Numb. 12.3. Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth. How many injuries did he put up? when the people of Israel murmured against him, instead of falling into a rage, he falls to prayer for them. Exod. 15.24, 25. The Text saith, they murmured at the waters of Marah; sure the waters were not so bitter as the spirits of the people; but they could not provoke him to passion, but petition. Another time when they wanted water, they fell a chiding with Moses, Exod. 17.3. Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children with thirst? As if they had said, if we dye, we will lay our death to thy charge; Would not this exasperate? sure it would have required the meekness ⟨p. 144⟩of an Angel to bear this; but behold Moses his meekness, he did not give them an unbecoming word! though they were in a storm, he was in a calm; they chide, but he prays. Oh that as the spirit of Elijah did rest upon Elisha, so that some of the spirit of Moses, this meek man, (or rather earthly Angel) may rest upon us! Another eminent pattern of meekness was David; when Shimei cursed David, and Abishai one of Davids life-guard would have beheaded Shimei; No, saith King David, Let him alone, and let him curse, 2 Sam. 16.11. And when Saul had wronged and abused David, and it was in his power to have taken Saul napping, and have killed him, 1 Sam. 26.7, 12. yet he would not touch Saul, but called God to be Umpire, Ver. 23. Here was a mirror of meekness.
2. Let us set before our eyes the examples of some of the Saints who have shined in this grace. Moses was a man of unparallel'd meekness. Numb. 12.3. Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth. How many injuries did he put up? when the people of Israel murmured against him, instead of falling into a rage, he falls to prayer for them.