A96093:941
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. Take heed of inward lets to peace.
As 1. [Greek or Hebrew], self-love. 2 Tim. 3.2. Men shall be lovers of themselves: And it follows, they shall be [Greek or Hebrew] fierce, Ver. 3. The setting up of this Idol of Self hath caused so many Law-suits, Plunders, Massacres in the World. All seek their own, Phil. 2.21. Nay, it were well if they would seek but their own. Self-love angles away the Estates of others either by force or fraud. Self-love sets up Monopolies and Enclosures; it is a Bird of prey, which lives upon rapine. Self-love cuts asunder the bond of peace; lay aside Self. The Heathens could say, Non nobis solum nati, we are not born for our selves.
As 1. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, self-love. 2 Tim. 3.2. Men shall be lovers of themselves: And it follows, they shall be 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 fierce, Ver. 3. The setting up of this Idol of Self hath caused so many Law-suits, Plunders, Massacres in the World. All seek their own, Phil. 2.21. Nay, it were well if they would seek but their own. Self-love angles away the Estates of others either by force or fraud. Self-love sets up Monopolies and Enclosures; it is a Bird of prey, which lives upon rapine. Self-love cuts asunder the bond of peace; lay aside Self. The Heathens could say, Non nobis solum nati, we are not born for our selves.