A96093:773
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.
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. 2 Tim. 3.2. Men shall be covetous; and it follows in the next Verse, Traitors. Where covetousness is in the Premises, Treason will be in the Conclusion.
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. 2 Tim. 3.2. Men shall be covetous; and it follows in the next Verse, Traytors. Where covetousness is in the Premises, Treason will be in the Conclusion.
4. Covetousness is the root of Murder. Why did Ahab stone Naboth to death, but to possess the Vineyard? 1 Kings 21.13. Covetousness hath made many swim to the Crown in blood; and can the heart be pure, when the hands are full of blood?