A96093:626
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. 4.
Showing that Christians must be merciful to the offences of others.
Shewing that Christians must be merciful to the offences of others.
4. WE must be merciful to the offences of others, be ready to show mercy to them which have injured you. Thus Stephen the Proto-martyr, Act. 7.60. he kneeled down and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. When he prayed for himself, he stood; but when he came to pray for his enemies, he kneeled down*; to show saith Bernard, his earnestness in prayer, and how greatly he desired that God would forgive them; this is a rare kind of mercy. Prov. 19.11. It is a mans glory to pass over a transgression. Mercy in forgiving injuries, as it is the touch-stone, so the Crown of Christianity; ⟨p. 195⟩Bishop Cranmer was of a merciful disposition; if any who had wronged him came to desire a courtesy of him, he would do all that lay in his power for him; insomuch that it grew to a Proverb, Do Cranmer an injury, and he will be your friend as long as he lives. To overcome evil with good, and answer malice with mercy, is truly heroical, and renders Religion glorious in the eyes of all; But I wave this, and proceed.