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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.
—Irus erit subito qui modo Croesus erat.—
So that it is wisdom (in this sense) to consider the wants of others. Remember how soon the scene may alter; we may be put in the poor's dress; and if adversity come, it will be no trouble of mind to us to think that while we had an estate we did lay it out upon Christs indigent members; this is the first thing in mercifulness, a judicious consideration.
So that it is wisdom (in this sence) to consider the wants of others. Remember how soon the scene may alter; we may be put in the poors dresse; and if adversity come, it will be no trouble of mind to us to think that while we had an estate we did lay it out upon Christs indigent members; this is the first thing in mercifulnesse, a judicious consideration.
2. A tender commiseration, Isa. 58.10. If thou draw out thy soul to the hungry. Bounty begins in pity; the Hebrew word for Mercy [Greek or Hebrew] signifies bowels. Christ first had compassion on the multitude, then he wrought a miracle to feed them, Matth. 15.32.* Charity which wants compassion is brutish. The brute creatures can relieve us many ways, but cannot pity us. 'Tis a kind of cruelty (saith Quintilian) to feed one in want, and not to sympathize with him. True Religion begets tenderness; as it melts the heart in tears of contrition towards God, so in bowels of compassion towards others*