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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.
That blessedness doth not lie in Externals, I shall prove by these five Demonstrations.
1. Those things which are not commensurate to the desires of the soul, can never make a man blessed; but transitory things are not commensurate to the desires of the soul; therefore they cannot render him blessed; nothing on earth can satisfy. Eccles. 5.10. He that loveth silver, shall not be satisfied with silver; Riches are unsatisfying.
1. Those things which are not commensurate to the desires of the soul, can never make a man blessed; but transitory things are not commensurate to the desires of the soul; therefore they cannot render him blessed; nothing on earth can satisfie. Eccles. 5.10. He that loveth silver, shall not be satisfied with silver; Riches are unsatisfying.
1. Because they are not real; the world is called a fashion, 1 Cor. 7.31. The word [Greek or Hebrew], signifies a Mathematical Figure, sometimes a show or apparition. Riches are but tinned over*; they are like Alchemy, which glisters a little in our eyes, but at death all this Alchemy will be worn off. Riches are but sugared lies, pleasant impostures; like a gilded Cover, which hath not one leaf of true comfort bound up in it.
1. Because they are not real; the world is called a fashion,