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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.
When poor indigent creatures, like Moses, are laid in the ark of bulrushes weeping, and ready to sink in the waters of affliction, be as temporal Saviours to them, and draw them out of the waters with a golden cord. Let the breasts of your mercy nurse the poor; be like the trees ⟨p. 214⟩of the Sanctuary, *both for food and medicine †; when distressed and even starved souls are fainting, let your costly ingredients revive, and fetch spirits in them. Let others see the coats, and garments which you have made for the poor, Acts 9.39.
When poor indigent creatures, like Moses, are laid in the arke of bulrushes weeping, and ready to sink in the waters of affliction, be as temporal Saviours to them, and draw them out of the waters with a golden cord. Let the brests of your mercy nurse the poor; be like the trees ⟨p. 214⟩of the Sanctuary, *both for food and medicine †; when distress'd and even starved souls are fainting, let your costly ingredients revive, and fetch spirits in them. Let others see the coats, and garments which you have made for the poor, Acts 9.39.
Arg. 8 8. The sin of unmercifulness. 1. The unmerciful man is an unthankful man, and what can be said worse? Thou to whom the Lord hath given an estate, thy cup runs over, but hast a miserly heart, and wilt not part with any thing for good uses; 'tis death to thee to relieve them that are dying; know that thou art in the highest degree ungrateful; thou art not fit for humane society; The Scripture hath put these two together, unthankful, without natural affection,