A96093:505
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.
Branch 2 2. IT reproves them who instead of hungering and thirsting after Righteousness, Reproof. thirst after Riches: This is the thirst of covetous men, they desire Mammon, not Manna†:* Amos 2.7. That pant after the dust of the Earth. This is the disease most are sick of, an immoderate appetite after the world; but these things will no more satiate, than drink will quench a dropsy mans thirst; covetousness is Idolatry, Col. 3.5. Too many Protestants set up the Idol of gold in the Temple of their hearts; this sin of covetousness is the most hardly rooted out; commonly when other sins leave men, this sin abides; wantonness is the sin of youth, worldliness the sin of old Age.
Branch 2 2. IT reproves them who instead of hungring and thirsting after Righteousness, Reproof. thirst after Riches: This is the thirst of covetous men, they desire Mammon, not Manna†:* Amos 2.7. That pant after the dust of the Earth. This is the disease most are sick of, an immoderate appetite after the world; but these things will no more satiate, than drink will quench a dropsie mans thirst; covetousness is Idolatry, Col. 3.5. Too many Protestants set up the Idol of gold in the Temple of their hearts; this sin of covetousness is the most hardly rooted out; commonly when other sins leave men, this sin abides; wantonness is the sin of youth, worldliness the sin of old Age.
- *Auri sacra fam•s. Hor.