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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. There is a Parochial peace; when there is a sweet harmony, a tuning and chiming together of affections in a Parish. When all draw one way, and as the Apostle saith, are perfectly joined together in the same mind, 1 Cor. 1.10. One jarring string brings all the Music out of tune; one bad Member in a Parish endangers the whole: 1 Thes. 5.13. Be at peace among your selves. 'Tis little comfort to have our houses joined together, if our hearts ⟨p. 271⟩be asunder; a Geometrical union will do little good without a Moral.
2. There is a Parochial peace; when there is a sweet harmony, a tuning and chiming together of affections in a Parish. When all draw one way, and as the Apostle saith, are perfectly joyned together in the same mind, 1 Cor. 1.10. One jarring string brings all the Musick out of tune; one bad Member in a Parish endangers the whole: 1 Thes. 5.13. Be at peace among your selves. 'Tis little comfort to have our houses joyned together, if our hearts ⟨p. 271⟩be asunder; a Geometrical union will do little good without a Moral.
3. There is a Political peace; peace in City and Country, this is the fairest flower of a Princes Crown;1 peace is the best blessing of a Nation. It is well with Bees when there is a noise; but it is best with Christians, when (as in the building of the Temple) there is no noise of Hammer heard. Peace brings plenty along with it; How many Miles would some go on pilgrimage to purchase this peace! therefore the Greeks made peace to be the Nurse of Pluto, the God of wealth. Political plants thrive best in the Sunshine of peace.