A96093:947
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.
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.
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 assoon as faith sees the King of heavens Warrant, it obeyes; faith perswades 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.
2. Christian communion: There should not be too much strangeness among Christians; the primitive Saints had their [Greek or Hebrew], love-feasts*. The Apostle exhorting to peace, brings this as an Expedient, Be ye kind one to another, Ephes. 4.32.
2. Christian communion: There should not be too much strangeness among Christians; the primitive Saints had their 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, love-feasts*. The Apostle exhorting to peace, brings this as an Expedient, Be ye kind one to another,