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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. A peaceable spirit seems to be agreeable to the natural frame and constitution; man by nature seems to be [Greek or Hebrew], a peaceable creature, fitter to handle the Plough than the Sword; other creatures are naturally armed with some kind of weapon wherewith they are able to revenge themselves: The Lyon hath his Paw, the Boar his Tusk, the Bee his Sting; only man hath none of these weapons, he comes naked and unarmed into the world, as if God would have him a peaceable creature. — Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras. — Man hath his Reason given him that he should live amiably and peaceably.
1. A peaceable spirit seems to be agreeable to the natural frame and constitution; man by nature seems to be 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a peaceable creature, fitter to handle the Plough than the Sword; other creatures are naturally arm'd with some kind of weapon wherewith they are able to revenge themselves: The Lyon hath his Paw, the Boar his Tusk, the Bee his Sting; only man hath none of these weapons, he comes naked and unarmed into the world, as if God would have him a peaceable creature. — Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras. — Man hath his Reason given him that he should live amiably and peaceably.
2. A peaceable spirit is honourable. Prov. 20.3. It is an honour for a man to cease from strife. We think it a brave thing to give way to strife, and let loose the reins to our passions; oh no, it is an honour to cease from strife: Noble spirits are such lovers of peace, that they need not be bound to the peace; 'tis the bramble that rends and tears whatever is near it; the Cedar and Fig-tree, those more noble Plants, grow pleasantly and peaceably; peaceableness is the Ensign and Ornament of a noble mind.