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The Christian's charter showing the privileges of a believerThe Christian's charter shewing the priviledges of a believer
The Christian's charter showing the privileges of a believer by Thomas Watson.The Christian's charter shewing the priviledges of a believer by Thomas Watson.
London: printed by T.R. & E.M. for Ralph Smith, 1654
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.
1. The frowns of great men: how ambitious are men of the Princes smile? but alas, that quickly sets in a cloud, and then their comforts ⟨p. 107⟩are in the wane, they are sad! but when we are with Christ, we shall have a perpetual smile from God: the Saints shall never be out of favour, Jesus Christ is the great favourite at Court; and as long as God smiles upon Christ, so long he will smile upon the Saints, they having on Christs beauty, and being part of Christ.
1. The frownes of great men: how ambitious are men of the Princes smile? but alas, that quickly sets in a cloud, and then their comforts ⟨p. 107⟩are in the wain, they are sad! but when we are with Christ, we shall have a perpetual smile from God: the Saints shall never be out of favour, Jesus Christ is the great favorite at Court; and as long as God smiles upon Christ, so long he will smile upon the Saints, they having on Christs beauty, and being part of Christ.
2. The loss of dear friends: a friend imparts secrets; friendship is the marriage of affections, it makes two become one spirit. David and Jonathan took sweet counsel together, their heart was knit in one: now here is the grief, when this precious knot must be untied: but be of good cheer, if thy friend belong to the election, after thou hast parted with thy sins, thou shalt meet with him and never part. If thy friend be wicked, though he were thy friend on earth, thou wilt cease to be ⟨p. 108⟩his friend in heaven. The pious wife shall not complain she hath lost her husband, nor the religious Parent, that he hath lost his child; all relations are infinitely made up in Christ, as the whole constellation in the Sun, that great Lamp of Heaven. When a man comes to the sea, he doth not complain that he wants his Cistern of water: Though thou didst suck some comfort from thy relations; yet when thou comest to the Ocean, and art with Christ, thou shalt never complain, that thou hast left thy cistern behind: There will be nothing to breed sorrow in heaven; there shall be joy, and nothing but joy: Heaven is set out by that phrase, Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord