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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.
Motive. 9 9. Want of meekness evidenceth want of grace; true grace inflames love, and moderates anger; grace is like the file which smooths the rough iron, it files off the ruggedness of a mans spirit; grace saith to the heart as Christ did to the angry Sea, Mark 4.39. Peace, be still. So where there is grace in the heart, it stills the raging of passion, and makes a calm. He who is in a perpetual frenzy, letting loose the reins to wrath and malice, never yet felt the sweet efficacy of grace, •t is one of the sins of the Heathen, Implacable, Rom. 1.31. a revengeful, cankered heart, is not only heathenish, but devilish, Jam. 3. 14, 15. If ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, this wisdom descendeth not from above, but is devilish. The old Serpent spits forth the poison of malice and revenge.
Motive. 9 9. Want of meeknesse evidenceth want of grace; true grace enflames love, and moderates anger; grace is like the file which smoths the rough iron, it files off the ruggednesse of a mans spirit; grace saith to the heart as Christ did to the angry Sea, Mark 4.39. Peace, be still. So where there is grace in the heart, it stills the raging of passion, and makes a calm. He who is in a perpetual phrensie, letting loose the reines to wrath and malice, never yet felt the sweet efficacy of grace, •t is one of the sins of the Heathen, Implacable, Rom. 1.31. a revengeful, cankred heart, is not only heathenish, but divellish, Jam. 3. 14, 15. If ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, this wisdom descendeth not from above, but is devillish. The old Serpent spits forth the poyson of malice and revenge.