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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.
4. We our selves live upon Alms; other creatures do Arg. 4 liberally contribute to our necessities; the Sun hath not its light for it self, but for us; it doth enrich us with its golden beams; the Earth brings us a fruitful crop; and to show how joyful a mother she is in bringing forth, the ⟨p. 212⟩Psalmist saith, the Valleys are covered with corn, they shout for joy, they also sing, Psal. 65.13. One creature gives us wool, another oil, another silk; we are fain to go a begging to the Creation. Shall every creature be for the good of man, and man only be for himself? how absurd and irrational is this!
4. We our selves live upon Alms; other creatures do Arg. 4 liberally contribute to our necessities; the Sun hath not its light for it self, but for us; it doth enrich us with its golden beams; the Earth brings us a fruitful crop; and to shew how joyful a mother she is in bringing forth, the ⟨p. 212⟩Psalmist saith, the Vallies are covered with corn, they shout for joy, they also sing, Psal. 65.13. One creature gives us wool, another oyle, another silk; we are fain to go a begging to the Creation. Shall every creature be for the good of man, and man only be for himself? how absurd and irrational is this!
Arg. 5 5. We are to extend our liberality by virtue of a membership. Isa. 58.7. That thou hide not thy self from thy own flesh. The poor are ex eodem luto, they are fellow-members of the same body*: The members do by a Law of equity and sympathy contribute one to another; the eye conveys light to the body, the heart blood, the head spirits; that is a dead member in the body, which doth not communicate to the rest. Thus it is in the body Politic; let no man think it is too far below him to mind the wants and necessities of others; it is pity but that hand should be cut off which disdains to pluck a thorn out of the foot. It is spoken in the honour of that Renowned Princess, the Empress of Theodosius the great, that she did her self visit the sick, and prepare relief for them with her own Imperial hands.