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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. Pride. Pride is such a thing as cannot endure to be out-shined; it loves not to see it self exceeded in parts, and eminency; therefore will behead another in his good name that he may appear something lower: The proud man will ⟨p. 189⟩be pulling down of others in their reputation, and so by their Eclipse he thinks he shall shine the brighter; the breath of a proud man causeth a blast or mildew upon fame.
2. Envy. 1 Pet. 2.1. An envious man maligns the dignity of another, therefore seeks to mischief him in his name; Religion teacheth us to rejoice in the esteem and same of others. Rom. 1.8. I thank my God for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world. [Greek or Hebrew], it is divulged with fame. A good report is a credit to Religion. Heb. 11.4. If persons professing godliness have not a good name, Religion will have no very good name; but envy, consulting with the Devil, lays a Train, and fetches fire from hell to blow up the good name of another.
2. Envy. 1 Pet. 2.1. An envious man maligns the dignity of another, therefore seeks to mischief him in his name; Religion teacheth us to rejoyce in the esteem and same of others. Rom. 1.8. I thank my God for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, it is divulged with fame. A good report is a credit to Religion. Heb. 11.4