A96093:771
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. Covetousness is the root of discontent: Why do ⟨p. 235⟩any repine at their condition, but because they think they have not enough? The Greek word for covetousness, [Greek or Hebrew], signifies an immoderate desire of getting; covetousness is a dry dropsy; and because the thirst is not satisfied, therefore the heart frets through discontent and impatience.
1. Covetousness is the root of discontent: Why do ⟨p. 235⟩any repine at their condition, but because they think they have not enough? The Greek word for covetousness, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, signifies an immoderate desire of getting; covetousness is a dry dropsie; and because the thirst is not satisfied, therefore the heart frets through discontent and impatiency.
2. Covetousness is the root of Theft. Achans covetous humour made him steal that wedge of gold which served to cleave asunder his soul from God, Joshua 7.21.
2. Covetousness is the root of Theft. Achans covetous humour made him steal that wedge of gold which served to cleave asunder his soul from God, Joshuah 7.21.
3. Covetousness is the root of Treason; it made Judas betray Christ, Matth. 26.15. What will ye give me and I will deliver him unto you! Absaloms covetousness made him attempt to pluck the Crown from his fathers head. He that is a Demas, will soon prove a Judas.