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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.
Branch 3 3. It reproves them who hunger and thirst after unrighteousness; Reproof. here I shall indict three sorts of persons.
Branch 3 3. It reproves them who hunger and thirst after unrighteousness; Reproof. here I shall indite three sorts of persons.
1. It reproves such as thirst after others mens Lands and Possessions; this the Scripture calls a mighty sin, Amos 5.12. Thus Ahab thirsted after Naboths Vineyard; this is an hungry Age wherein we live; we have a great deal of this hungering and thirsting, which hath made so many State-Thieves; Men have fleeced others to feather themselves. What a brave challenge did Samuel make? 2 Sam. 12.3. Behold here I am, witness against me before the Lord, and before his Anointed, Whose Ox have I taken? or whose Ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? of whose hand have I received any bribe? &c. Few that have been in Power can say thus, Whose ⟨p. 161⟩Ox have we taken? whose house have we plundered? whose estate have we sequestered? Nay, whose Ox have they not taken? Goods unjustly gotten, seldom go to the third heir. De male quaesitis vix gaudet tertius haeres. Read the Plunderers curse: Isa. 33.1. Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled. Ahab paid dear for the Vineyard, when the Devil carried away his soul, and the Dogs licked his blood, 1 Kings 21.19. He that lives on Rapine, dies a fool. Jer. 17.11. He that getteth riches, and not by right, at his end shall be a fool.