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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.
SECT. 2.
Showing that Christians must be tender of one another's names.
Shewing that Christians must be tender of one anothers names.
2. WE must be merciful to the names of others. A good name is one of the greatest blessings upon earth; no chain of Pearl doth so adorn as this; it being so, we ought to be very tender of names. They are to be accounted in an high degree unmerciful, who make no conscience of taking away the good names of their brethren. Their throats are open Sepulchres to bury the fame and renown of men, Rom. 3.13. 'Tis a great cruelty to murder a man in his name, Cant. 5.7. The keepers of the wall took away my veil from me; some Expositors interpret it of her honour and fame, which did cover her as a beautiful veil. The ground of this unmercifulness to names is,
2. WE must be merciful to the names of others. A good name is one of the greatest blessings upon earth; no chaine of Pearl doth so adorn as this; it being so, we ought to be very tender of names. They are to be accounted in an high degree unmerciful, who make no conscience of taking away the good names of their brethren. Their throats are open Sepulchres to bury the fame and renown of men, Rom. 3.13. 'Tis a great cruelty to murder a man in his name, Cant. 5.7. The keepers of the wall took away my vaile from me; some Expositors interpret it of her honour and fame, which did cover her as a beautiful vail. The ground of this unmercifulnesse to names is,