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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.
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, 2 Cor. 5.20. but they must not be like those Out-landish Ambassadors that cannot be understood without an Interpreter. 'Tis unmercifulness to souls to preach so as not to be understood. Ministers should be Stars to give light, not clouds to obscure the truth. Saint Paul was learned, yet plain. Clearness and perspicuity is the grace of speech. 'Tis cruelty to souls when we go about to make easy things hard; This many are guilty of in our age, who go into the Pulpit only to tie knots; and think it their glory to amuse the people; this savours more of pride than mercifulness.
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 flie 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, 2 Cor. 5.20. but they must not be like those Out-landish Ambassadors that cannot be understood without an Interpreter. 'Tis unmercifulnesse to souls to preach so as not to be understood. Ministers should be Stars to give light, not clouds to obscure the truth. Saint Paul was learned, yet plain. Clearnesse and perspicuity is the grace of speech. 'Tis cruelty to souls when we go about to make easie things hard; This many are guilty of in our age, who go into the Pulpit only to tie knots; and think it their glory to amuse the people; this savours more of pride than mercifulnesse.
4. Such as see others going on in sin, but do not tell them of it. When men declare their sin as Sodom, it is the Ministers duty to lift up his voice like a trumpet, and show the house of Jacob their sin,