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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. 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.
3. To be of a peaceable spirit, is highly prudential. Jam. 3.17. The wisdom from above is peaceable. A wise man will not meddle with strife; it is like putting ones finger into an Hornets Nest; or to use Solomons similitude, Prov. 17.14. The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water. To set out the folly of strife, it is as letting out of water in two respects.
1. When water begins to be let out, rhere is no end of it; so there is no end of strife when once begun.