A96093:686
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. 6 6. We are not Lords of an Estate, but Stewards; and how soon may we hear that Word, Read rationem, Give an account of thy Stewardship, for thou mayst be no longer Steward! Luke 16.2. An Estate is a Talent to trade with; it is as dangerous to hide our Talent*, as to spend it, Matth. 25.25, 30. If the covetous man keep his gold too long, it will begin to rust, and the •ust of it will witness against him, Jam. 5.3.
Arg. 6 6. We are not Lords of an Estate, but Stewards; and how soon may we hear that Word, Redde rationem, Give an account of thy Stewardship, for thou mayst be no longer Steward! Luke 16.2. An Estate is a Talent to trade with; it is as dangerous to hide our Talent*, as to spend it, Matth. 25.25, 30. If the covetous man keep his gold too long, it will begin to rust, and the •ust of it will witness against him, Jam. 5.3.
- *Defosso auro incubare dicitur, qui pecuni am i•utilem detinet. Grotius.
Arg. 7 7. The Examples of others who have been Renowned for acts of mercy and munificence.