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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. 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.
4. To be of a peaceable spirit, brings peace along with it; a contentious person vexeth himself, and eclipseth his own comfort; he is like the Bird that beats it self against the Cage, he troubleth his own flesh, Prov. 11.17. He is just like one that pares off the sweet of the Apple, and eats nothing but the Core: So a quarrelsome man pares off all the comfort of his life, and feeds only upon the bitter Core of disquiet, he is a self-tormentor; the wicked are compared to a troubled sea, Isa. 57.20. And it follows, there is no peace to the wicked, Ver. 21. The Septuagint renders it [Greek or Hebrew], there is no joy to the wicked; froward spirits do not enjoy what they possess; but peaceableness of spirit brings the sweet Music of peace along with it, it makes a calm and harmony in the soul; therefore the Psalmist saith, it is not only bonum, but jucundum; not only good, but pleasant to live together in unity, Psal. 133.1.
4. To be of a peaceable spirit, brings peace along with it; a contentious person vexeth himself, and eclipseth his own comfort; he is like the Bird that beats it self against the Cage, he troubleth his own flesh,