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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.
4. [Greek or Hebrew], Credulity. Prov. 14.15. The simple believeth every word. A credulous man is akin to a fool, he believes all that is told him, and this doth often create differences. As it is a sin to be a Tale-bearer, so it is a folly to be a Tale-believer. A wise man will not take a report at the first bound, but will sift and examine it before he gives credit to it.
4. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Credulity. Prov. 14.15. The simple believeth every word. A credulous man is akin to a fool, he believes all that is told him, and this doth often create differences. As it is a sin to be a Tale-bearer, so it is a folly to be a Tale-believer. A wise man will not take a report at the first bound, but will sift and examine it before he gives credit to it.
2. Let us labour for those things which will maintain and cherish peace.
As, 1. Faith; faith and peace keep house together; faith believes the Word of God; the Word saith, Live ⟨p. 284⟩in peace, 2 Cor. 13.11. And as soon as faith sees the King of heavens Warrant, it obeys; faith persuades the soul that God is at peace; and it is impossible to believe this, and live in variance; nourish faith; faith knits us to God in love, and to our Brethren in peace.