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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.
2. Above gifts; gifts do not at all set us off in Gods eye; a pure heart is the jewel. Matth. 15.28. O woman great is thy faith! It was not her Rhetorical language Christ was taken with, but her faith. Hypocrites have had rare gifts; Saul had the spirit of Prophecy; Judas no doubt could make an Elegant Oration. Hypocrites have come into Gods Church loaden with Egyptian gold; videl Humane learning: There may be Illumination without Sanctification. A small Diamond is better than a great deal of brass: A little grace excels the most flourishing parts. Now if the out-goings of thy soul are after holiness, thou desirest rather a pure heart, than an eloquent tongue; thou hast the oil of the Spirit poured on thee, and thou shalt be crowned with a sight of God.
2. Above gifts; gifts do not at all set us off in Gods eye; a pure heart is the jewel. Matth. 15.28. O woman great is thy faith! It was not her Rhetorical language Christ was taken with, but her faith. Hypocrites have had rare gifts; Saul had the spirit of Prophesie; Judas no doubt could make an Elegant Oration. Hypocrites have come into Gods Church loaden with Egyptian gold; videl Humane learning: There may be Illumination without Sanctification. A small Diamond is better than a great deal of brass: A little grace excels the most flourishing parts. Now if the out-goings of thy soul are after holiness, thou desirest rather a pure heart, than an eloquent tongue; thou hast the oyle of the Spirit poured on thee, and thou shalt be crowned with a sight of God.
3. A pure heart abhors all sin: A man may forbear and forsake sin, yet not have a pure heart.