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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.
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⟩the truth of all that is revealed in the holy Scriptures, this is not the faith which doth privilege us in sonship; the Devils believe all the Articles in the Creed: 'Tis not the bare knowledge of a medicine, or believing the Sovereign virtue of it, will cure one that is ill. This general faith (so much cried up by some) will not save; this a man may have, and yet not love God. He may believe that God will come to judge the quick and the dead, and hate him; as the prisoner believeth the Judges coming to the Assizes, and abhors the thoughts of him. Take heed of resting in a general faith; you may have this, and be no better than Devils.
1. A more lax, general faith. When we believe ⟨p. 297⟩the truth of all that is revealed in the holy Scriptures, this is not the faith which doth priviledge us in sonship; the Divels believe all the Articles in the Creed: 'Tis not the bare knowledge of a medicine, or believing the Soveraign vertue of it, will cure one that is ill. This general faith (so much cryed up by some) will not save; this a man may have, and yet not love God. He may believe that God will come to judge the quick and the dead, and hate him; as the prisoner believeth the Judges coming to the Assizes, and abhors the thoughts of him. Take heed of resting in a general faith; you may have this, and be no better than Divels.