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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. The Spirit is compared to wind. Acts 2.2. There came a sound from heaven as of a mighty rushing wind, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost. The wind doth purify the Air*; when the Air by reason of foggy vapours is unwholesome, the wind is a Fan to winnow and purify it. Thus when the vapours of sin arise in the heart, vapours of pride and covetousness, earthly vapours, the Spirit of God ariseth and blows upon the soul, and so purgeth away these impure vapours. The Spouse in the Canticles prays for a Ga•e of the Spirit, that she might be made pure, Cant. 4.16.
2. The Spirit is compared to wind. Acts 2.2. There came a sound from heaven as of a mighty rushing wind, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost. The wind doth purifie the Aire*; when the Aire by reason of foggy vapours is unwholsome, the wind is a Fan to winnow and purifie it. Thus when the vapours of sin arise in the heart, vapours of pride and covetousness, earthly vapours, the Spirit of God ariseth and blows upon the soul, and so purgeth away these impure vapours. The Spouse in the Canticles prays for a Ga•e of the Spirit, that she might be made pure, Cant. 4.16.
- *Ventus aerem expurgat.
3. The Spirit is compared to water.