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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.
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN EARLE of CLARE, And his Virtuous and Pious Consort, ELIZABETH Countess of CLARE.
TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE JOHN EARLE of CLARE, And his Vertuous and Pious Consort, ELIZABETH Countesse of CLARE.
Right Honourable,
Right Honorable,
THE many civilities and favours, received from your Honours, have laid no small obligations upon me; and I knew not wherein I might better testify my gratitude to you both, than by presenting ⟨image 3⟩you with something of this kind, as a specimen of that solemn respect and service which I owe to you. My Lord, the soul being a blossom of eternity, what should so preponderate, and bear sway with us as those things which help to raise the soul to its full [Greek or Hebrew] of happiness, and set it off in its orient splendour! Blood may ennoble, learning may adorn, but Religion puts the Garland of salvation upon a man. In this consists true Wisdom. [Greek or Hebrew]— My Lord, the study of this subject which I here offer to your view, will with the blessing of God much expedite and help forward the true progress of Religion. For the Author of this Sermon on the Mount, behold, a greater than Solomon is here; Christ himself is the Preacher; as his lips did ever drop like an honey-comb, so most eminently, ⟨image 3⟩