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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.
3. This is the way to be like God; God is meek towards Motive. 3 them that provoke him*; how many black mouths are opened daily against the Majesty of heaven? how do men tear his Name? vex his Spirit? crucify his Son afresh? they walk up and down the earth as so many Devils covered with flesh, yet the Lord is meek, not willing that any should perish, 2 Pet. 3. How easily could God crush sinners, and kick them into hell! but he moderates his anger; though he be full of Majesty, yet full of meekness; in him is mixed Princely greatness, and Fatherly mildness; as he hath his Sceptre of Royalty, so his Throne of grace. Oh how should this make us fall in love with meekness! hereby we bear a kind of likeness to God; it is not profession makes us like God, but imitation; where meekness is wanting, we are not like men; where it is, we are like God.
3. This is the way to be like God; God is meek towards Motive. 3 them that provoke him*; how many black mouths are opened daily against the Majesty of heaven? how do men tear his Name? vex his Spirit? crucifie his Son afresh? they walk up and down the earth as so many Divels covered with flesh, yet the Lord is meek, not willing that any should perish, 2 Pet. 3. How easily could God crush sinners, and kick them into hell! but he moderates his anger; though he be full of Majesty, yet full of meekness; in him is mixed Princely greatness, and Fatherly mildness; as he hath his Scepter of Royalty, so his Throne of grace. Oh how should this make us fall in love with meekness! hereby we bear a kind of likeness to God; it is not profession makes us like God, but imitation; where meekness is wanting, we are not like men; where it is, we are like God.
- *Cum crebris exacerbatur offensis, iram suam temperate. Cypr.Cum crebris exacerbatur offensis, iram suam temperat. Cypr.