 | John Norris - 1707 - 572 pages
...-. :.' ; DISCOURSES UPON THE W BEATITUDES,; VOLT! Difcourfe the Firft. Matth. V. ver. iii. tMefled are the poor in fpirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. THus the Divine Angel of the Covenant, Chrift Jefus, begins that Great and Noble Inftitution of . Chriftian... | |
 | James Gardiner - 1720 - 448 pages
...muft enquire in the next place, z. WHY this belongs fo properly and peculiarly to the poor in fpirit. Bleffed are the poor in fpirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Theirs it is in both fenfes, both the ftate of grace, and the ftate of glory ', to them belongs the... | |
 | 1722 - 588 pages
...III. For wo unto you that are rich, for yebavereceivedyottrconjolation c. Wherefore Jefus hath laid : Bleffed are the poor in fpirit : for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven d. Whether this be underftood of real or ipiritual Poverty, certain it is that voluntary Poverty is... | |
 | John Norris - 1724 - 508 pages
...Bleflednefs : DISCOURSES !., • UPON THE BEATITUDES. VOL. I. ISCOURSE the Firft. MATT HV Ver. Hi. , . "Bleffed Are the poor in fpirit , for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. the Divine Angel of the Covenant, Chrift Jefus, begins *" that Great and Noble Inftitution of Chriftian... | |
 | William Law - 1734 - 344 pages
...miferable and curled are they that do not mourn, for they mail not be comforted. Again, BLESSED BLESSED are the poor in fpirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. NOTHING can carry a greater denial and contradi&ion to all the tempers and ways of the world than this... | |
 | Samuel Clarke - 1736 - 376 pages
...the Satisfadtion of the prefent practice of it, and in the fuinefs of its future Reward. 3 Blefled are the poor in fpirit: for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven. 4 Bleffed are they that mourn: for they fhall be comforted. 5 Blefled are the meek: for they mail inherit... | |
 | Josiah Tucker - 1749 - 78 pages
...our Lord, to correSi thefe Errors, began his Beatitudes with faying, Blefled are the Poor in Spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. Bleffed are they that mourn ; for they fhall be comforted. And the fame Kind of Reafoning, which, I have " See Mr. Blair's excellent Paraphrafe on Chrift's on... | |
 | Peter Browne (bp. of Cork and Ross.) - 1749 - 462 pages
...conftant XVI. ftyle of the new teftament, and particularly of this fermon upon the mount : Blejj'ed are the poor in fpirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven ; blejj'ed are the meek., for they (hall inherit the earth : So, blefjed are they that hunger and thirft... | |
 | William Whiston - 1753 - 380 pages
...felfHemenlyTreafure, which neither the Moth norThieves can deftroy. The Beatitudes, Matth. v. "DLefled are the poor in fpirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blefled are they that mourn, for they fhall be comforted. Blefled are the meek, for they fhall inherit... | |
 | Josiah Tucker - 1759 - 68 pages
...our Lord, to correct thefe Errors, began his Beatitudes with faying, Bleffed are the Poor in Spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. Bleffed are they that mourn ; for they (hall be comforted. And the fame Kind of Reafoning, which, I have / * See Mr. Blair's excellent Paraphrafe... | |
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Blefled are the poor in fpirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 
