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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. 2 Object. 2. I cannot do so much as others, Erect Churches, Build Hospitals, Augment Libraries, Maintain Scholars at the University?
Answ. If you cannot do so much, Answ. yet do something; let there be quantitas virtutis, though there be not quantitas molis. The Widows two Mites cast into the Treasury were accepted, Luke 21. God (as Chrysostom observes*) looked not at the smallness of her gift, but the largeness of her heart. In the Law, he that could not bring a Lamb for an offering, if he brought but two Turtle-doves, it sufficed. We read, Exod. 35. the people brought gold and silver, and Goats hair, to the building of the Tabernacle; on which place (saith Origen) I desire Lord, to bring something to the building of thy Temple; if not gold to make the Mercy-seat on; if not silk to make the Curtains on; yet a little Goats hair, that I may not be found in the number of those that have brought nothing to thy Temple.
Answ. If you cannot do so much, Answ. yet do something; let there be quantitas virtutis, though there be not quantitas molis. The Widows two Mites cast into the Treasury were accepted, Luke 21. God (as Chrysostom observes*) looked not at the smalness of her gift, but the largeness of her heart. In the Law, he that could not bring a Lamb for an offering, if he brought but two Turtle-doves, it sufficed. We read, Exod. 35. the people brought gold and silver, and Goats hair, to the building of the Tabernacle; on which place (saith Origen) I desire Lord, to bring something to the building of thy Temple; if not gold to make the Mercy-seat on; if not silk to make the Curtains on; yet a little Goats hair, that I may not be found in the number of those that have brought nothing to thy Temple.