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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 nature of Purity. 2. The subject of Purity.
11. The nature of Purity. Purity is a Sacred refined thing; it stands diametrically opposite to immunditia, or whatsoever defileth; we must distinguish of purity. 1. There is a Primitive Purity which is in God Originally and Essentially as light is in the Sun. Holiness is the glory of the Godhead*, Exod, 15.11. [Greek or Hebrew], Glorious in holiness; God is the Pattern and Prototype of all holiness.
11. The nature of Purity. Purity is a Sacred refined thing; it stands diametrically opposite to immunditia, or whatsoever defileth; we must distinguish of purity. 1. There is a Primitive Purity which is in God Originally and Essentially as light is in the Sun. Holinesse is the glory of the Godhead*, Exod, 15.11. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Glorious in holiness; God is the Pattern and Prototype of all holinesse.
- 1The nature of Purity.
- *Septuag.
2. There is a created Purity; Thus holiness is in the Angels, and was once in Adam; Adams heart had not the ⟨p. 223⟩