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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 2 Use 2. It exhorts to two things.
11. Let us take up a bitter lamentation for the divisions of England; the wild Beast hath broken down the hedge Branch. 1 of our peace; we are like an house falling to ruin, if the Lord doth not mercifully under-prop, and shore us up. None of the sons of England comfort her, but rather rake in her bowels: Will not an ingenuous child grieve to see his mother rent and torn in pieces? It is reported of Cato, that from the time the Civil Wars began in Rome between Cesar and Pompey, he was never seen to laugh, or shave his beard, or cut his hair. That our hearts may be sadly affected with these our Church and State-divisions, let us consider the mischief of divisions.
11. Let us take up a bitter lamentation for the divisions of England; the wild Beast hath broken down the hedge Branch. 1 of our peace; we are like an house falling to ruine, if the Lord doth not mercifully under-prop, and shore us up. None of the sons of England comfort her, but rather rake in her bowels: Will not an ingenuous child grieve to see his mother rent and torn in pieces? It is reported of Cato, that from the time the Civil Wars began in Rome between Cesar and Pompey, he was never seen to laugh, or shave his beard, or cut his hair. That our hearts may be sadly affected with these our Church and State-divisions, let us consider the mischief of divisions.
- 1Exhort.
1. They are a Prognostic of much evil to a Nation; here that Rule in Philosophy holds true, omne divisibile est corruptibile. When the veil of the Temple did rend in pieces, it was a sad omen and fore-runner of the destruction of the Temple; the rending the veil of the Churches peace, betokens the ruin of it. Josephus observes that the City of Jerusalem, when it was besieged by Titus Vespasian, had three great factions in it, which destroyed more than the enemy, and was the occasion of