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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. 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 ⟨p. 298⟩all the graces to make us children.
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 Coyne passe 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 priviledge above ⟨p. 298⟩all the graces to make us children.
2. Faith makes us children, as it is the vital principle. Hab. 2.4. The just shall live by faith. All Gods children are living, none of them are still-born; now by faith we live. As the heart is the primum vivens, the fountain of life in the body; so Faith is the fountain of life in the soul.