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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. 6.
Containing a persuasion to spiritual hunger.
Use 5 Use 5 IT exhorts us all to labour after this spiritual hunger.1 Parum est justitiam velle, sed esurire, quod ⟨p. 169⟩ingens desiderium prae see fert. Novarinus. Hunger less after the world, and more after righteousness; say concerning spiritual things, Lord, evermore give me this bread; Feed me with this Angels food. That Manna is most to be hungered after which will not only preserve life, but prevent death, John 6.50. that is most desirable, which is most durable. Riches are not for ever, Prov. 28.24. but righteousness is for ever, Prov. 8.18. The beauty of holiness *never fades; the robe of righteousness *never waxeth old! Oh hunger after that righteousness which delivereth from death,