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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.
MATTH. 5.9. Blessed are the Peace-makers, &c.
CHAP. XVIII.
Concerning Peaceableness.
THIS is the seventh step of the golden Ladder which leads to blessedness, [Greek or Hebrew]. The name of peace is sweet, and the work of peace is a blessed work. Blessed are the Peace-makers. Observe the Connection, the Scripture links these two together, Pureness of heart, and peaceableness of spirit. Jam. 3.17. The wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable. Hebr. 12.14. Follow peace and holiness; and here Christ joins them together, Pure in heart, and Peace-makers; as if there could be no purity, where there is not a study of peace; that Religion is suspicious, which is full of Faction and Discord.
THIS is the seventh step of the golden Ladder which leads to blessedness, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. The name of peace is sweet, and the work of peace is a blessed work. Blessed are the Peace-makers. Observe the Connexion, the Scripture links these two together, Pureness of heart, and peaceableness of spirit.