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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.
1Having done with the occasion, I come now Fourthly to the Sermon it self; Blessed are the Poor in Spirit. Christ doth not begin his Sermon on the Mount, as the Law was delivered on the Mount, Mandatis & Minis, with commands and threatenings; the ⟨p. 17⟩Trumpet sounding, the Fire flaming, the Earth quaking, and the hearts of the Israelites too for fear; but our Saviour (whose lips dropped as the honey-comb) begins Promissis & Illectamentis, with Promises and Blessings: So sweet and ravishing was the Doctrine of this heavenly Orpheus, that like Music, it was able to charm the most savage natures, yea, to draw hearts of stone to him. To begin then with this first word, Blessed.
1HAving done with the occasion, I come now Fourthly to the Sermon it self; Blessed are the Poor in Spirit. Christ doth not begin his Sermon on the Mount, as the Law was delivered on the Mount, Mandatis & Minis, with commands and threatnings; the ⟨p. 17⟩Trumpet sounding, the Fire flaming, the Earth quaking, and the hearts of the Israelites too for fear; but our Saviour (whose lips dropped as the honey-comb) begins Promissis & Illectamentis, with Promises and Blessings: So sweet and ravishing was the Doctrine of this heavenly Orpheus, that like Musick, it was able to charme the most savage natures, yea, to draw hearts of stone to him. To begin then with this first word, Blessed.
- 14. The Sermon.
If there be any blessedness in knowledge, it must needs be in the knowledge of blessedness. For the Illustration of this, I shall lay down two Aphorisms or Conclusions.