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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.
2. Soul-mercy is in advising and exhorting sinners: Tell them in what a sad condition they are, in the gall of bitterness. Show them their danger, they tread upon the banks of the bottomless pit; if death gives them a jog, they tumble in; and we must dip our words in honey, use all the mildness we can. 2 Tim. 2.25. In meekness instructing, &c. Fire melts, ointment mollifies; words of love may melt hard hearts into Repentance; this is soul-mercy: God made a Law, Exod. 23.5. that whosoever did see his enemies Ass lying under a burden, he should help him. On which words saith Chrysostom, We will help a Beast that is fallen under a burden; and shall we not extend relief to those who are fallen under a worse burden of sin?
2. Soul-mercy is in advising and exhorting sinners: Tell them in what a sad condition they are, in the gall of bitterness. Shew them their danger, they tread upon the banks of the bottomless pit; if death gives them a jog, they tumble in; and we must dip our words in honey, use all the mildness we can. 2 Tim. 2.25. In meekness instructing, &c. Fire melts, oyntment mollifies; words of love may melt hard hearts into Repentance; this is soul-mercy: God made a Law, Exod. 23.5. that whosoever did see his enemies Ass lying under a burden, he should help him. On which words saith Chrysostom, We will help a Beast that is fallen under a burden; and shall we not extend relief to those who are fallen under a worse burden of sin?