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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.
3. Let me tell you of Heathens; I have read of Titus Vespasian, he was so inured to works of mercy, that remembering §3he had given nothing that day, cried out, diem perdidi, I have lost a day. 'Tis reported of some of the Turks, that they have servants whom they employ on purpose to enquire what poor they have, and they send relief to them. And the Turks have a saying in their Alcoran, that if men knew what a blessed thing it were to distribute Alms, rather than spare, they would give some of their own flesh to relieve the poor. And shall not a Christians Creed be better than a Turks Alcoran?
3. Let me tell you of Heathens; I have read of Titus Vespasian, he was so inured to works of mercy, that remembring §3he had given nothing that day, cried out, diem perdidi, I have lost a day. 'Tis reported of some of the Turks, that they have servants whom they employ on purpose to enquire what poor they have, and they send relief to them. And the Turks have a saying in their Alcoran, that if men knew what a blessed thing it were to distribute Alms, rather than spare, they would give some of their own flesh to relieve the poor. And shall not a Christians Creed be better than a Turks Alcoran?
Let all this persuade to works of mercy.
Let all this perswade to works of mercy.
Regia crede mihi res est succurrere lapsis.—