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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. The injuriousness of it; thou that takest away the good name of another, woundest him in that which is most dear to him; better take away a mans life than his name; by eclipsing his name thou buriest him alive; it is an irreparable injury; aliquid haerebit. — A wound in the name is like a flaw in a Diamond, or a stain in Azure, which will never out; no Physician can heal the wounds of the tongue.
3. God will require it at mens hands; if idle words must be accountable for, shall not reproachful slanders? God will make inquisition one day as well for names, as for blood. Let all this persuade to Caution and Circumspection; you would be loth to steal the goods of others; a mans name is of more worth; and he that takes away the good name of ⟨p. 193⟩another, doth sin more than if he had taken the corn out of his Field, or the wares out of his Shop.
3. God will require it at mens hands; if idle words must be accountable for, shall not reproachful slanders? God will make inquisition one day as well for names, as for blood. Let all this perswade to Caution and Circumspection; you would be loth to steal the goods of others; a mans name is of more worth; and he that takes away the good name of