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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.
WE must be merciful to the wants of others. This the text chiefly intends; a good man doth not like the Snake, twist within himself; his motion is direct, not circular: he is ever merciful and lendeth, Psal. 37.26. This merciful charity to the wants of others, stands in three things.
1. A judicious consideration, Psal. 41.1. Blessed is he that considereth the poor: and you must consider four things.
1. It might have been your own case; you your selves might have stood in need of another's charity, and then how welcome and refreshing would those streams have been to you?
1. It might have been your own case; you your selves might have stood in need of anothers charity, and then how welcom and refreshing would those streams have been to you?
2. Consider, how sad a condition poverty is. Though Chrysostom calls poverty the high-way to heaven; yet he that keeps this road, will go weeping thither, [Greek or Hebrew]. Consider the poor, behold their tears, their sighs, their dying groans; look upon the deep furrows made in their faces, and consider if there be not reason why you should