A96093:680
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.
Arg. 2 2. By this we resemble God, who is a God of mercy; he is said to delight in mercy*: Micah 7.18. His mercies are over all his works, Psal. 145.9. He requites good for evil; like the clouds, which receive ill vapours from us, but return them to us again in sweet showers. There is not a creature lives but tastes of the mercies of God; every Bird (saith Ambrose) doth in its kind sing Hymns of praise to God for his bounty; but Men and Angels do in a more particular manner taste the cream and quintessence of Gods mercies.
Arg. 2 2. By this we resemble God, who is a God of mercy; he is said to delight in mercy*: Micah 7.18. His mercies are over all his works, Psal. 145.9. He requites good for evil; like the clouds, which receive ill vapours from us, but return them to us again in sweet showres. There is not a creature lives but tastes of the mercies of God; every Bird (saith Ambrose) doth in its kind sing Hymns of praise to God for his bounty; but Men and Angels do in a more particular manner taste the cream and quintessence of Gods mercies.
- *[Greek or Hebrew]. Mac.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Mac.
1. What temporal mercies have you received! every time you draw your breath, you suck in mercy; every ⟨p. 211⟩