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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. Such as feed not the souls of their people with solid truths. When Christ sent out his Apostles, he gave them their Text, and tells them what they must preach, Matth. 10.7. Preach, saying the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand, Upon which place saith Luther, the Ministers of Christ must preach quae ad regnum coelorum conducant, Things that pertain to the Kingdom of God; pardon of sin, sanctification, living by faith, ne aliter ex ecclesiâ faciant politiam. They are unmerciful to souls, who instead of breaking the bread of life, fill their peoples heads with very speculations and notions; who rather tickle the fancy, ⟨p. 187⟩than touch the conscience, and give precious souls rather music than food.
2. Such as feed not the souls of their people with solid truths. When Christ sent out his Apostles, he gave them their Text, and tells them what they must preach, Matth. 10.7. Preach, saying the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand, Upon which place saith Luther, the Ministers of Christ must preach quae ad regnum coelorum conducant, Things that pertaine to the Kingdom of God; pardon of sin, sanctification, living by faith, ne aliter ex ecclesiâ faciant politiam. They are unmerciful to souls, who instead of breaking the bread of life, fill their peoples heads with very speculations and notions; who rather tickle the fancy, ⟨p. 187⟩than touch the conscience, and give precious souls rather musick than food.
3. Such as darken knowledge with words, and preach so as if they were speaking in an unknown tongue. Some Ministers love to soar aloft, like the Eagle, and fly above their peoples capacities, endeavouring rather to be admired than understood. They are like some crabbed Authors which cannot be read without a Comment. Indeed God calls his Ministers Ambassadors,