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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.
Pressing Christians to be Peace-makers.
Doctr. 2 THAT all good Christians ought to be peace-makers; Doctr. 2 they should not only be ⟨p. 285⟩peaceable themselves, but make others to be at peace; as in the body, when a joint is out, we set it again; so it should be in the body Politic: When a garment is rent, we sow it together again; when others are rent asunder in their affections, we should with a spirit of meekness sow them together again: Had we this excellent skill, we might glue and unite dissenting spirits. I confess it is oft a thankless office to go about to reconcile differences*: Acts 7.27. Handle a briar never so gently, it will go near to scratch; he that goes to interpose between two Fencers, many time receives the blow; but this duty, though it may want success as from men, yet it shall not want a blessing from God: Blessed are the peace-makers. O how happy were England if it had more peace-makers. Abraham was a peace-maker, Gen. 13.8. Moses was a peace-maker, Exod. 2.13. and that ever to be honoured Emperor Constantine, when he called the Bishops together at that first Council of Nice to end Church-controversies, they having instead of that prepared bitter invectives, and accusations one against another, Constantine took their papers and rent them, gravely exhorting them to peace and unanimity.
Doctr. 2 THAT all good Christians ought to be peace-makers; Doctr. 2 they should not only be ⟨p. 285⟩peaceable themselves, but make others to be at peace; as in the body, when a joynt is out, we set it again; so it should be in the body Politick: When a garment is rent, we sowe it together again; when others are rent asunder in their affections, we should with a spirit of meekness sow them together again: Had we this excellent skill, we might glue and unite dissenting spirits. I confess it is oft a thankless office to go about to reconcile differences