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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.
3. Divisions obstruct the progress of piety; the Gospel seldom thrives where the apple of strife grows; the building of Gods spiritual Temple is hindered by the confusion of tongues. Division eats as a worm, and destroys the peaceable fruits of righteousness*. In the Church of Corinth, when they began to divide into Parties, one was for Paul, and another for Apollo, there were but few for Christ; confident I am, Englands divisions have made many turn Atheists.
2. Let us labour to heal differences, and be repairers Branch. 2 of breaches; Blessed are the peace-makers. 1. Jesus Christ was a great peace-maker, he took a long journey from ⟨p. 288⟩heaven to earth to make peace. 2. Peace and unity is a great means for the corroborating and strengthening the Church of God; the Saints are compared to living stones, built up for a spiritual house, 1 Pet. 2.5. You know the stones in an Arch or Fabric do help to preserve and bear up one another; if the stones be loosened, and drop out, all the Fabric falls in pieces: When the Christians in the primitive Church were of one heart, Acts 4.32. what a supporting was this? how did they counsel, comfort, build up one another in their holy faith? We see while the members of the body are united, so long they do administer help and nourishment one to another; but if they be divided and broken off, they are no way useful, but the body languisheth; therefore let us endeavour to be peace-makers; the Churches unity tends much to her stability.