 | John Norris - 1707 - 572 pagina’s
...-. :.' ; 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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | William Law - 1734 - 344 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Richard Lucas - 1734 - 464 pagina’s
...and let me hear and feel that voice that fpoke purity to the leprous, and life to the dead. Buffed is the poor in fpirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. The kingdom of heaven, this is a bleflednefs indeed! the kingdoms of the earth dazle and aftonifh me ;... | |
 | Samuel Clarke - 1736 - 376 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Peter Browne (bp. of Cork and Ross.) - 1749 - 462 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Assembly of divines confess. and catech - 1765 - 626 pagina’s
...the covenant of my peace be rernovecj, faith the Lord, that hath mercy on thee. Mat. v. 3. Blefled are the poor in fpirit : for theirs is the kingdom of heaven, v. 4. Blefled are they that mourn : for they ihall be comforted. Pfa. xxxi. 22. For I-faid in my hafte,... | |
 | Samuel Stennett - 1769 - 454 pagina’s
...many great bleffings promifed to the humble Chriftian, not in this life only, but in that to come. Bleffed are the poor in fpirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven*. But I forbear — From humility let us goon, SECONDLY To Contentment, which is the offspring of humility,... | |
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Blefled are the poor in fpirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 
