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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. This word illegitimate imports infelicity and misery. Persons illegitimate cannot inherit legally; the Land goes only to such as are lawful heirs; till we are the children of God, we have no right to heaven; and there is no way to be children but by faith; Ye are the children of God by faith.
Here two things are to be discussed.
1. What faith is. 2. Why faith makes us children.
1. What faith is: If faith doth instate us into son-ship, it concerns us to know what faith is. There is a two-fold faith.
1. A more lax, general faith. When we believe ⟨p. 297⟩