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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. [Greek or Hebrew], Pride. Prov. 28.25. He that is of a proud heart, stirreth up strife. Pride and Contention like Hippocrates Twins, are both born at once. A proud man thinks himself better than others, and will contend for ⟨p. 283⟩superiority. Joh. 3.9. Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence: A proud man would have all strike sail to him. Because Mordecai would not give Haman the Cap and Knee, he gets a bloody Warrant signed for the death of all the Jews, Esther 3.9. What made all the strife between Pompey and Caesar but pride? their spirits were too high to yield one to another. When this wind of pride gets into a mans heart, it causeth sad Earth-quakes of division. The Poets fain, that when Pandora's box was broke open, it filled the World with diseases. When Adams pride had broken the box of Original righteousness, it hath ever since filled the World with debates and dissentions. Let us shake off this viper of pride; humility solders Christians together in peace.
2. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Pride. Prov. 28.25. He that is of a proud heart, stirreth up strife. Pride and Contention like Hippocrates Twins, are both born at once. A proud man thinks himself better than others, and will contend for ⟨p. 283⟩superiority. Joh. 3.9. Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preheminence: A proud man would have all strike sail to him. Because Mordecai would not give Haman the Cap and Knee, he gets a bloody Warrant signed for the death of all the Jewes, Esther 3.9. What made all the strife between Pompey and Caesar but pride? their spirits were too high to yield one to another. When this wind of pride gets into a mans heart, it causeth sad Earth-quakes of division. The Poets fain, that when Pandora's box was broke open, it fill'd the World with diseases. When Adams pride had broken the box of Original righteousness, it hath ever since fill'd the World with debates and dissentions. Let us shake off this viper of pride; humility soders Christians together in peace.