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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.
2. The Organical or Instrumental cause of our son-ship, is faith▪ Baptism doth not make us children, that is indeed a badge and livery, and gives us right to many external privileges; but the thing which makes God take cognizance of us for children, is faith. Gal. 3.26. Ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. Before faith be wrought, we have nothing to do with God; we are (as the Apostle speaks in another sense) bastards, and ⟨p. 296⟩not sons, Hebr. 12.7. An unbeliever may call God his Judge, but not his Father. Wicked men may draw near to God in Ordinances, and hope that God will be their Father; but while they are unbelievers, they are bastards; and God will not Father them, but will lay them at the Devils door: Ye are the children of God by faith; faith doth legitimate us, it confers upon us the title of son-ship, and gives us right to inherit.
2. The Organical or Instrumental cause of our son-ship, is faith▪ Baptism doth not make us children, that is indeed a badge and livery, and gives us right to many external priviledges; but the thing which makes God take cognizance of us for children, is faith. Gal. 3.26. Ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. Before faith be wrought, we have nothing to do with God; we are (as the Apostle speaks in another sense) bastards, and ⟨p. 296⟩not sons, Hebr. 12.7. An unbeliever may call God his Judge, but not his Father. Wicked men may draw near to God in Ordinances, and hope that God will be their Father; but while they are unbelievers, they are bastards; and God will not Father them, but will lay them at the Divels door: Ye are the children of God by faith; faith doth legitimate us, it confers upon us the title of son-ship, and gives us right to inherit.