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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.
1. Evil Magistrates. 2. Evil Ministers.
1. Evil Magistrates, who either take away the Key of knowledge*, or give a Toleration to wickedness, suffering men to sin by a Licence, The meaning of Toleration is this, if men will to hell, none shall stop them. Is not nature enough poisoned? Do not men sin fast enough, but must they have such political engines as screw them up higher in wickedness? Must they have such favourable gales from the breath of great ones as serve to carry them full sail to the Devil? This is far from soul-mercy*. What an heavy reckoning will these Statists have in the day of the Lord!
1. Evil Magistrates, who either take away the Key of knowledge*, or give a Toleration to wickednesse, suffering men to sinne by a Licence, The meaning of Toleration is this, if men will to hell, none shall stop them. Is not nature enough poyson'd? Do not men sin fast enough, but must they have such political engines as scrue them up higher in wickednesse? Must they have such favourable gales from the breath of great ones as serve to carry them full sail to the Divel? This is far from soul-mercy*. What an heavy reckoning will these Statists have in the day of the Lord!
- *Luke 11.52.
- *Meminerit princeps non solum quantum sibi commissum, sed quatenus permissum fit. Cicero.