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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.
SECT. 3.
How to attain this grace of meekness.
Quest. HOW shall I do to be possessed of this excellent grace of meekness?
Answ. 1. Often look upon the meekness of Christ; the Scholar that would write well, hath his eye often upon the Copy.
2. Pray earnestly that God will meeken thy spirit; God is called [Greek or Hebrew], the God of all grace, 1 Pet. 5.10. He hath all the graces in his gift, Sue to him for this grace of meekness; if one were Patron of all the Livings in the Land, men would sue to him for a Living: God is Patron of all the graces, let us sue to him; mercy comes in at the door of prayer.