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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.
1. In respect of our selves: Till the heart be pure, all our holy things are polluted; they are splendida peccata: Titus 1.15. To the unclean all things are unclean; their offering is unclean. Under the Law, if a man who was unclean by a dead body, did carry a piece of holy flesh in his skirt, the holy flesh could not cleanse him, but he polluted that: Hag. 2.12, 13. He who had the Leprosy, whatever he touched was unclean; if he had touched the Altar or Sacrifice, the Altar had not cleansed him, but he had defiled the Altar; A foul hand defiles the purest water; an impure heart defiles Prayers, Sacraments; ⟨p. 249⟩he drops poison upon all. A pure stream running through muddy ground is polluted; the holiest Ordinances are stained running through an impure heart. A sinners works are called opera mortua, dead works, Hebr. 6.1. And those works which are dead, cannot please God; a dead wife cannot please her husband.
1. In respect of our selves: Till the heart be pure, all our holy things are polluted; they are splendida peccata: Titus 1.15. To the unclean all things are unclean; their offering is unclean. Under the Law, if a man who was unclean by a dead body, did carry a piece of holy flesh in his skirt, the holy flesh could not cleanse him, but he polluted that: Hag. 2.12, 13. He who had the Leprosie, whatever he touched was unclean; if he had touched the Altar or Sacrifice, the Altar had not cleansed him, but he had defiled the Altar; A foul hand defiles the purest water; an impure heart defiles Prayers, Sacraments; ⟨p. 249⟩he drops poyson upon all. A pure stream running through muddy ground is polluted; the holiest Ordinances are stained running through an impure heart. A sinners works are called opera mortua, dead works,