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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.
1. Our Lord Christ, a great Example of charity, he was not more full of merit than bounty. Trajan the Emperor did rend off a piece of his own Robe to wrap ⟨p. 213⟩his soldiers wounds. Christ did more, he rent his flesh, he made a medicine of his body and blood to heal us, Isa. 53.5. by his stripes ye are healed. Here was a pattern of charity without a parallel*.
1. Our Lord Christ, a great Example of charity, he was not more full of merit than bounty. Trajan the Emperour did rend off a piece of his own Robe to wrap ⟨p. 213⟩his souldiers wounds. Christ did more, he rent his flesh, he made a medicine of his body and blood to heal us, Isa. 53.5. by his stripes ye are healed. Here was a pattern of charity without a parallel*.
- *[Greek or Hebrew]. Greg. Myssen.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Greg. Myssen.
2. The Jews are noted in this kind; 'tis a Rabbinical §2observation, that those who live devoutly among the Jews, distribute a tenth part of their estate among the poor; and they give so freely (saith Philo the Jew) as if by giving they hoped to receive some great gratuity; Now if the Jews are so devoted to works of mercy, who live without Priest, without Temple, without Messiah, shall not we much more who profess our faith in the blessed Messiah!