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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.
Answ. 3 3. We deal unmercifully with the names of others, when we diminish from their just worth and dignity; when we make more of their infirmities, and less of their virtues. Jam. 4.11. Speak not evil one of another. I have read a story of one Idor an Abbot, that he was never heard to speak evil of any man. Saint Austin could not endure that any should eclipse and lessen the fame of ⟨p. 191⟩others; therefore wrote those two Verses upon his Table. Quisquis amat dictis absentum rodere famam, Hanc mensam vetitam noverit esse sibi. Whosoever loves another's name to blast, This Table is not for him, let him fast. Wicked men are still paring off the credit of their Neighbours, and they make thick parings; they pare off all that is good; nothing is left but the Core, something that may tend to their disparagement. Unmerciful men know how to boil a Quart to a Pint; they have a Devilish Art so to extenuate and lessen the merit of others, that it is even boiled away to nothing. Some, though they have not the power of Creation, yet they have the power of Annihilation. They can sooner annihilate the good which is in others, than imitate it.
Answ. 3 3. We deal unmercifully with the names of others, when we diminish from their just worth and dignity; when we make more of their infirmities, and less of their vertues. Jam. 4.11. Speak not evil one of another. I have read a story of one Idor an Abbot, that he was never heard to speak evil of any man. Saint Austin could not endure that any should eclipse and lessen the fame of ⟨p. 191⟩others; therefore wrote those two Verses upon his Table. Quisquis amat dictis absentum rodere famam, Hanc mensam vetitam noverit esse sibi. Whosoever loves anothers name to blast, This Table is not for him, let him fast. Wicked men are still paring off the credit of their Neighbours, and they make thick parings; they pare off all that is good; nothing is left but the Kore, something that may tend to their disparagement. Unmerciful men know how to boile a Quart to a Pint; they have a Divellish Art so to extenuate and lessen the merit of others, that it is even boiled away to nothing. Some, though they have not the power of Creation, yet they have the power of Annihilation. They can sooner annihilate the good which is in others, than imitate it.