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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.
4. Blessed in his Posterity. Psal. 37.26. He is ever merciful, and lendeth; his seed is blessed. He shall not only leave an Estate behind, but a blessing behind to his children; and God will see that the entail of that blessing shall not be cut off.
5. Blessed in his Negotiations. Deutr. 15.10. For this thing the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto. The merciful man shall be blessed in his building, planting, journeying; whatever he is about, a blessing shall empty it self upon him. Quicquid calcaverit rosa fiet. — He shall be a prosperous man; the honey-comb of a blessing shall be still dropping upon him.
5. Blessed in his Negotiations. Deutr. 15.10. For this thing the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto. The merciful man shall be blessed in his building, planting, journying; whatever he is about, a blessing shall empty it self upon him. Quicquid calcaverit rosa fiet. — He shall be a prosperous man; the honey-comb of a blessing shall be still dropping upon him.
6. Blessed with long life. Psal. 41.2. The Lord will preserve him, and keep him alive*. He hath helped to keep others alive, and God will keep him alive: Is there any thing then lost by mercifulness? it spins out the silver thread of life; many are taken away the sooner for their unmercifulness; because their hearts are straitened, their lives are shortened.