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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.
Use 1. Reproof. It sharply reproves them that are so Use 1 far from being peace-makers, that they are peace-breakers: Reproof. If blessed are the peace-makers, then cursed are the peace-breakers: If peace-makers are the children of God, then peace-breakers are the children of the Devil. Heretics destroy the truth of the Church by Error; and Schismatics destroy the peace of it by division; the Apostle sets a b••nd upon such, Rom. 16.17. Mark those which cause divisions and avoid them: Have no more to do with them, than with Witches or Murderers: The Devil was the first peace-breaker, he divided man from God; he like Phaeton, set all on fire: There are too many make-bates in ⟨p. 284⟩[…] ⟨p. 285⟩[…] ⟨p. 286⟩England, whose sweetest Music is in discord; who never unite but to divide; as it was said of one of the Arian Emperors, he procured unity to prevent peace*: How many in our days may be compared to Samsons Foxtails, which were tied together only to set the Philistines Corn on fire! Judges 15.4, 5. Sectaries unite to set the Churches peace on fire; these are the persons Gods soul hates. Prov. 6.19. Sowers of discord among Brethren; these are the children of a curse. Deutr. 27.24. Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. That is, who backbites, and so sets one friend against another; if there be a Devil in mans shape, it is the Incendiary.
Use 1. Reproof. It sharply reproves them that are so Use 1 far from being peace-makers, that they are peace-breakers: Reproof. If blessed are the peace-makers, then cursed are the peace-breakers: If peace-makers are the children of God, then peace-breakers are the children of the Divel. Hereticks destroy the truth of the Church by Error; and Schismaticks destroy the peace of it by division; the Apostle sets a bnd upon such,