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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.
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Use 1 1LET me crave liberty to speak a word to the Elisha's, my Reverend and Honoured Brethren in the Ministry. You are engaged in a glorious service, God hath put great Renown upon you; he hath entrusted you with two the most precious jewels, his TRUTHS, and the SOULS of his people; never was this honour conferred upon any Angel to convert souls; What Princely Dignity can parallel this? The Pulpit is higher than the Throne; for a truly constituted Minister represents no less than God himself. 2 Cor. 5.20. As though God did beseech you by us, we pray you in Christs stead, be ye reconciled to God. Give me leave to say as the Apostle, Rom. 11.13. I magnify my Office. Whatever our Persons are, the Office is Sacred: The Ministry is the most honourable employment in the World; Jesus Christ hath graced this calling by his entering into it; other men work in their Trade, Ministers work with God. 1 Cor. 3.9. [Greek or Hebrew] We are labourers together with God. O high honour! God and his Ministers have one and the same work, they both negotiate about souls: Let the sons of the Prophets wear this as their Crown and Diadem; but while I tell ⟨p. 13⟩you of your Dignity, do not forget your Duty: Imitate this blessed pattern in the Text, the Lord Jesus, who seeing be multitudes, he went up and taught. He took all occasions of preaching; sometimes he taught in the Temple, Mark 14.49. sometimes in a Ship,