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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. There is a special faith; fides quâ creditur; when we do not only believe the report we hear of Christ, but rest upon him, embrace him, taking hold of the horns of this Altar, resolving there to abide. In the body there are venae sugentes, sucking veins, which draw the meat into the stomach, and concoct it there: So faith is the sucking vein, which draws Christ into the heart, and applies him there. This is the filiating faith; by this we are made the children of God; and wherever this faith is, it is not like physic in a dead mans mouth, but is exceeding operative, it obligeth to duty, it works by love, Gal. 5.6.
2. There is a special faith; fides quâ creditur; when we do not only believe the report we hear of Christ, but rest upon him, embrace him, taking hold of the horns of this Altar, resolving there to abide. In the body there are venae sugentes, sucking veins, which draw the meat into the stomack, and concoct it there: So faith is the sucking veine, which draws Christ into the heart, and applies him there. This is the filiating faith; by this we are made the children of God; and wherever this faith is, it is not like physick in a dead mans mouth, but is exceeding operative, it obligeth to duty, it works by love, Gal. 5.6.
2. Why Faith makes us children? why not as well other graces, Repentance, Love, &c?
Answ. 1. Because Faith is instituted of God, and honoured to this work of making us children. Gods institution gives Faith its value and validity; it is the Kings stamp makes the Coin pass currant; if he would put his stamp upon brass or leather, it would go as currant as silver. The great God hath authorized, and put the stamp of his institution upon Faith, and that makes it pass for currant, and gives it a privilege above