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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. The meek Christian is said to inherit the Earth, because he inherits the blessing of the Earth; the wicked man hath the Earth, but not as a fruit of Gods favour; he hath it as a Dog hath poisoned bread, it doth him more hurt than good; a wicked man lives in the Earth as one that lives in an infectious Air, he is infected by his mercies; the fat of the Earth will but make him fry and blaze the more in hell; so that a wicked man may be said not to have what he hath, because he hath not the blessing; but the meek Saint enjoys the Earth as a pledge of Gods love; the curse and poison is taken out of the Earth. Psal. 37.11. The meek shall inherit the Earth, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace; on which words Austin gives this gloss; Wicked men (saith he) may delight themselves in the abundance of Cattle and Riches, but the meek man delights himself in the abundance of peace; what he hath, he doth possess with inward serenity and quietness.
2. The meek Christian is said to inherit the Earth, because he inherits the blessing of the Earth; the wicked man hath the Earth, but not as a fruit of Gods favour; he hath it as a Dog hath poysoned bread, it doth him more hurt than good; a wicked man lives in the Earth as one that lives in an infectious Aire, he is infected by his mercies; the fat of the Earth will but make him fry and blaze the more in hell; so that a wicked man may be said not to have what he hath, because he hath not the blessing; but the meek Saint enjoys the Earth as a pledge of Gods love; the curse and poyson is taken out of the Earth. Psal. 37.11. The meek shall inherit the Earth, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace; on which words Austin gives this gloss; Wicked men (saith he) may delight themselves in the abundance of Cattle and Riches, but the meek man delights himself in the abundance of peace; what he hath, he doth possess with inward serenity and quietness.