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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.
11. Covetousness is the cause of unprofitableness under the means. In the Parable, the Thorns choked the seed, Matth. 13.7. This is the reason the Word preached doth no more good; the seed oft falls among Thorns; thousands of Sermons lie buried in earthly hearts.
11. Covetousness is the cause of unprofitableness under the means. In the Parable, the Thorns choaked the seed, Matth. 13.7. This is the reason the Word preached doth no more good; the seed oft falls among Thorns; thousands of Sermons lie buried in earthly hearts.
12. Covetousness is the root of penuriousness and baseness, it hinders hospitality*; a covetous man hath a withered hand, he cannot reach it out to clothe or feed such as are in want. The covetous person is so sordid, that if his Estate may flourish he is content to let his name lie dead and buried: What a cursed sin is avarice? and can he be pure in heart, that hath such a root of bitterness growing in him? we may as well say the wine is pure which runs dregs, or the body is pure which is full of plague-spots.
12. Covetousness is the root of penuriousness and baseness, it hinders hospitality*; a covetous man hath a withered hand, he cannot reach it out to cloath or feed such as are in want. The covetous person is so sordid, that if his Estate may flourish he is content to let his name lie dead and buried: What a cursed sin is avarice? and can he be pure in heart, that hath such a root of bitterness growing in him? we may as well say the wine is pure which runs dregs, or the body is pure which is full of plague-spots.