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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.
Answ. 2. Admit this excuse to be real, that you have Answ. 2 not such an Estate; yet you may do something wherein you may express your mercy to the poor; you may sympathize with them, pray for them, speak a word of comfort to them. Isa. 40.2. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem. If you can give them no gold, you may speak a word in season which may be as apples of gold in pictures of silver: Nay more, you may be helpful to the poor, in stirring up others who have Estates to relieve them; as it is with the wind, if a man be hungry, the wind will not fill him; but it can blow the Sails of the Mill, and make it grind Corn for the use of man; so though thou hast not an Estate thy self, to help him who ⟨p. 210⟩is in want, yet thou mayst stir up others to help him; thou mayst blow the Sails of their affections, causing them to show mercy, and so mayst help thy brother by a Proxy.
Answ. 2. Admit this excuse to be real, that you have Answ. 2 not such an Estate; yet you may do something wherein you may express your mercy to the poor; you may sympathize with them, pray for them, speak a word of comfort to them. Isa. 40.2. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem. If you can give them no gold, you may speak a word in season which may be as apples of gold in pictures of silver: Nay more, you may be helpful to the poor, in stirring up others who have Estates to relieve them; as it is with the wind, if a man be hungry, the wind will not fill him; but it can blow the Sails of the Mill, and make it grind Corn for the use of man; so though thou hast not an Estate thy self, to help him who ⟨p. 210⟩is in want, yet thou mayst stir up others to help him; thou mayst blow the Sails of their affections, causing them to shew mercy, and so mayst help thy brother by a Proxy.
Having answered these Objections, let me now pursue the Exhortation to mercifulness: I shall lay down several Arguments, which I desire may be weighed in the balance of reason and conscience.