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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.
Use 1. See what a blessed work the work of the Ministry Use 1 is! The preaching of the Word is nothing but showing mercy to souls; This is a mighty and glorious engine in the hand of the Lord of Hosts for the beating down of the Devils strong-holds. The Ministry of the Word doth not only bring light with it, but eye-salve, anointing the eyes to see that light. It is a sin-killing, and a soul-quickening Ordinance, it is the power of God to salvation. What enemies are they to their own souls that oppugn the Ministry! They say, the people that live under the line, curse the Sun, and are glad when the sun sets, because of its burning heat. Foolish sinners curse the Sun-rising of the Ministry, and are offended at the light of it, because it comes near their sins, and scorcheth their consciences, ⟨p. 186⟩though in the end it saves their souls.
Use 1. See what a blessed work the work of the Ministry Use 1 is! The preaching of the Word is nothing but shewing mercy to souls; This is a mighty and glorious engine in the hand of the Lord of Hosts for the beating down of the Divels strong-holds. The Ministry of the Word doth not only bring light with it, but eye-salve, anointing the eyes to see that light. It is a sin-killing, and a soul-quickning Ordinance, it is the power of God to salvation. What enemies are they to their own souls that oppugne the Ministry! They say, the people that live under the line, curse the Sun, and are glad when the sun sets, because of its burning heat. Foolish sinners curse the Sun-rising of the Ministry, and are offended at the light of it, because it comes near their sins, and scorcheth their consciences, ⟨p. 186⟩though in the end it saves their souls.
Use 2 Use 2. It reproves them that have no mercy to souls. Reproof.