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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.
Reason 1 1. God commands; there is an express Statute-Law, Lev. 25.35. If thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee, then thou shalt relieve him. The Hebrew word is [Greek or Hebrew] thou shalt strengthen him; put under him a silver Crutch when he is falling. 'Tis worth our observation what great care God took of the poor, besides what was given them privately; God made many Laws for the public and visible relief of the poor. Exod. 23.11. The seventh year thou shalt let the Land rest, and lie still, that the poor of thy people may eat. Gods intention in this Law was, that the poor should be liberally provided for; they might freely eat of any thing which did grow of itself this seventh year*; whether of Herbs, Vines or Olive-trees: If it be asked how the poor could live only on these fruits, there being (as it is probable) no corn growing then? for answer, Cajetan is of opinion, they lived by selling these fruits, and so converting them into money, lived upon the price of the fruits.
Reason 1 1. God commands; there is an express Statute-Law, Lev. 25.35. If thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee, then thou shalt relieve him. The Hebrew word is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 thou shalt strengthen him; put under him a silver Crutch when he is falling. 'Tis worth our observation what great care God took of the poor, besides what was given them privately; God made many Laws for the publick and visible relief of the poor. Exod. 23.11. The seventh year thou shalt let the Land rest, and lie still, that the poor of thy people may eat. Gods intention in this Law was, that the poor should be liberally provided for; they might freely eat of any thing which did grow of itself this seventh year*; whether of Herbs, Vines or Olive-trees: If it be asked how the poor could live only on these fruits, there being (as it is probable) no corn growing then? for answer, Cajetan is of opinion, they lived by selling these fruits, and so converting them into money, lived upon the price of the fruits.