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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.
Answ. In some things they agree, in some things they differ; like waters that may have two different spring-heads, but meet in the stream. Love and mercy differ thus; Love is more extensive; the Diocese that Love walks and visits in, is larger: Mercy properly respects them that are miserable; Love is of a larger consideration; Love is like a friend ⟨p. 182⟩that visits them that are well; Mercy is like a Physician that visits only them that are sick. Again, Love acts more out of affection; Mercy acts out of a principle of conscience; Mercy lends its help to another, Love gives its heart to another: Thus they differ; but Love and Mercy agree in this, they are both ready to do good Offices; both of them have soundings of bowels, and healing under their wings.
Answ. In some things they agree, in some things they differ; like waters that may have two different spring-heads, but meet in the stream. Love and mercy differ thus; Love is more extensive; the Diocess that Love walks and visits in, is larger: Mercy properly respects them that are miserable; Love is of a larger consideration; Love is like a friend ⟨p. 182⟩that visits them that are well; Mercy is like a Physitian that visits only them that are sick. Again, Love acts more out of affection; Mercy acts out of a principle of conscience; Mercy lends its help to another, Love gives its heart to another: Thus they differ; but Love and Mercy agree in this, they are both ready to do good Offices; both of them have soundings of bowels, and healing under their wings.
Quest. 2. Whence doth mercy spring?
Answ. Its spring-head riseth higher than nature; Mercy taken in its full latitude, proceeds from a work of grace in the heart; naturally we are far enough from mercy; the sinner is a bramble, not a Fig-tree yielding sweet fruit: 'Tis the Character and [Greek or Hebrew] of a natural man, unmerciful,