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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.
Object. 1 Object. 1. We may give, and so in time come ourselves to want?
Answ. Answ. Let Basil answer this: Wells (saith he) which have their water drawn, spring ever more freely*. Prov. 11.25. The liberal soul shall be made fat. Luther speaks of a Monastery in Austria, which was very rich while it gave annually to the poor, but when it left off giving, the Monastery began to decay. There is nothing lost by doing our duty; an Estate may be imparted, yet not impaired. The flowers yield honey to the Bee, yet hurt not their own fruit: When the candle of prosperity shines upon us, we may light our Neighbour that is in the dark, and have never the less light our selves. Whatever is disbursed to pious uses, God doth bring it in some other way; as the Loaves in breaking multiplied, or as the Widows oil increased by pouring out, 1 Kings 17.16.
Answ. Answ. Let Basil answer this: Wells (saith he) which have their water drawn, spring ever more freely*. Prov. 11.25. The liberal soul shall be made fat. Luther speaks of a Monastery in Austria, which was very rich while it gave annually to the poor, but when it left off giving, the Monastery began to decay. There is nothing lost by doing our duty; an Estate may be imparted, yet not impaired. The flowers yield honey to the Bee, yet hurt not their own fruit: When the candle of prosperity shines upon us, we may light our Neighbour that is in the dark, and have never the less light our selves. Whatever is disbursed to pious uses, God doth bring it in some other way; as the Loaves in breaking multiplied, or as the Widows oyle increased by pouring out,