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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.
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.
2. The letting out of water is dangerous: If a man should break down a Bank, and let in an Arm of the Sea, the water might overflow his Fields, and drown him in the Flood: so is he that intermeddles with strife; he may mischief himself, and open such a Sluice as may engulf and swallow him up. True wisdom espouseth peace; a prudent man will keep off from the briars as much as he can.
2. The letting out of water is dangerous: If a man should break down a Bank, and let in an Arme of the Sea, the water might overflow his Fields, and drown him in the Flood: so is he that intermeddles with strife; he may mischief himself, and open such a Sluce as may ingulph and swallow him up. True wisdom espouseth peace; a prudent man will keep off from the bryars as much as he can.