A96093:641
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.
4. Consider, how quickly the balance of Providence may turn; we our selves may be brought to poverty, and then it will be no small comfort to us that we relieved others, while we were in a capacity to do it. Eccles. 11.2. Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth. We cannot promise our selves always Halcyon days; God knows how soon any of us may change our pasture; the Cup which now runs over with wine, may be filled with the waters of Marah, Ruth 1.21. I went out full and the Lord hath brought me home again empty. How many have we seen like Bajazet, and Belisarius, invested with great Lordships and possessions, who have on a sudden brought their Manor to a morsel?
4. Consider, how quickly the ballance of Providence may turn; we our selves may be brought to poverty, and then it will be no small comfort to us that we relieved others, while we were in a capacity to do it. Eccles. 11.2. Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth. We cannot promise our selves always Halcyon dayes; God knows how soon any of us may change our pasture; the Cup which now runs over with wine, may be filled with the waters of Marah, Ruth 1.21. I went out full and the Lord hath brought me home again empty. How many have we seen like Bajazet, and Bellizarius, invested with great Lordships and possessions, who have on a sudden brought their Mannor to a morsel?
—Irus erit subito qui modo Croesus erat.—