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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.
9. Peaceableness among Christians is a powerful lodestone to draw the world to receive Christ; not only gifts and miracles, and preaching may persuade men to embrace the truth of the Gospel, but peace and unity among the Professors of it: When as there is one God and one faith, so there is one heart among Christians; this is as Cummin seed, which makes the Doves flock to the windows. The Temple was adorned with goodly stones, Luk. 21.5. This makes Christs spiritual Temple look beautiful, and the ⟨p. 281⟩stones of it appear goodly, when they are cemented together in peace and unity.
9. Peaceableness among Christians is a powerful loadstone to draw the world to receive Christ; not only gifts and miracles, and preaching may perswade men to embrace the truth of the Gospel, but peace and unity among the Professors of it: When as there is one God and one faith, so there is one heart among Christians; this is as Cummin seed, which makes the Doves flock to the windows. The Temple was adorn'd with goodly stones, Luk. 21.5. This makes Christs spiritual Temple look beautiful, and the ⟨p. 281⟩stones of it appear goodly, when they are cemented together in peace and unity.
10. Unpeaceableness of spirit is to make Christians turn Heathens; 'tis the sin of the Heathens, [Greek or Hebrew], implacable, Rom. 1.31. They cannot be pacified, their hearts are like Adamant, no oil can supple them, no fire can melt them; 'tis a Heathenish thing to be so fierce and violent, as if with Romulus, men had sucked the milk of Wolves.