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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. The merciful man shall be rewarded in this life; he shall be blessed,
1. In his Person. Psal. 41.1. Blessed is he that considers the poor. Let him go whether he will, a blessing goes along with him; he is in favour with God, God casts a smiling aspect upon him.
2. Blessed in his name. Psal. 112.6. He shall be had in everlasting remembrance. When the Niggards ⟨p. 216⟩name shall rot, the name of a merciful man shall be embalmed with honour, and give forth its scent as the wine of Lebanon.
3. Blessed in his Estate. Omni rerum copia affluet. Prov. 11.25. The liberal soul shall be made fat. He shall have the fat of the Earth, and the dew of Heaven. He shall not only have the Venison, but the blessing.