A96093:718
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.
Rule. 5 5. Dispose your Alms prudentially; 'tis said of the merciful man, he orders his affairs with discretion, Psal. 112.5.* There is a great deal of wisdom in distinguishing between them that have sinned themselves into poverty, and who by the hand of God are brought into poverty. Discretion in the distribution of Alms, consists in two things.
- *Vox pauperum monet prudentiam in dandis Eteemosynis adhibe dam esse. Mollerus.
1. In finding out a fit Object. 2. In taking a fit Season.
1. In finding out a fit Object, and that comes under a double notion. 1. Give to those who are in most need; raise the Hedge where it is lowest; feed the Lamp which is going out. 2. Give to those who may probably be ⟨p. 221⟩more serviceable; though we bestow cost and dressing upon a weak Plant, yet not upon a dead Plant; breed up such as may help to build the house of Israel, Ruth 4.11. that may be Pillars in Church and State, not Cater-pillars, making your charity to blush.