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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.
Let me exhort you therefore to deeds of mercy, let your fingers drop with the myrrh of liberality*; sow ⟨p. 208⟩your golden seed; in this sense it is lawful to put out your money to use, when you lay it out for good uses: Remember that excellent saying of Saint Austin, Give those things to the poor which you cannot keep,* that you may receive those things which you cannot lose †. There are many occasions of exercising your mercifulness. Pauper ubique jacet. — Hear the Orphans cry, pity the Widows tears. Some there are who want employment, it would do well to set their Wheel a going: Others, who are past employment; be as eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame: Some, whole Families are sinking, if some merciful hand doth not help to shore them up. Before I press Arguments to liberality and munificence, there are three Objections lie in the way which I shall endeavour to remove.
Let me exhort you therefore to deeds of mercy, let your fingers drop with the myrhe of liberality*; sowe ⟨p. 208⟩your golden seed; in this sense it is lawful to put out your money to use, when you lay it out for good uses: Remember that excellent saying of Saint Austin, Give those things to the poor which you cannot keep,* that you may receive those things which you cannot lose †. There are many occasions of exercising your mercifulness. Pauper ubique jacet. — Hear the Orphans cry, pity the Widows tears. Some there are who want employment, it would do well to set their Wheel a going: Others, who are past employment; be as eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame: Some, whole Families are sinking, if some merciful hand doth not help to shore them up. Before I press Arguments to liberality and munificence, there are three Objections lie in the way which I shall endeavour to remove.
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