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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 second sign of son-ship is Assimilation, Col. 3.10. Ye have put on the new man which is renewed af-the image of him that created him. [Greek or Hebrew]; the child resembles the father; Gods children are like their heavenly Father, they bear his very image and impress; wicked men say they are the children of God, but there is too great a dissimilitude and unlikeness; the Jews bragged they were Abraham's children, but Christ disproves them by this argument, because they were not like him, John 8.40. Ye seek to kill me, a man that have told you the truth which I have heard of God; this did not Abraham. You Abraham's children, and go about to kill me! Abraham would not have murdered an innocent, you are more like Satan than Abraham, ver. 44. ye are of your father the Devil. Such as are proud, earthly, malicious, may say, our father which art in hell; 'tis blasphemy to call God our Father, and make the Devil our Pattern. Gods children resemble him in meekness and holiness; they are his walking pictures; As the Seal stamps its print, and likeness upon the Wax; so doth God stamp the print and effigies of his own beauty upon his children.
2. The second signe of son-ship is Assimilation, Col. 3.10. Ye have put on the new man which is renewed af-the image of him that created him. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; the child resembles the father; Gods children are like their heavenly Father, they bear his very image and impresse; wicked men say they are the children of God, but there is too great a dissimilitude and unlikenesse; the Jews brag'd they were Abrahams children, but Christ disproves them by this argument, because they were not like him, John 8.40. Ye seek to kill me, a man that have told you the truth which I have heard of God; this did not Abraham. You Abrahams children, and go about to kill me! Abraham would not have murdered an innocent, you are more like Satan than Abraham, ver. 44. ye are of your father the Divel. Such as are proud, earthly, malitious, may say, our father which art in hell; 'tis blasphemy to call God our Father, and make the Divel our Pattern. Gods children resemble him in meeknesse and holinesse; they are his walking pictures; As the Seale stamps its print, and likenesse upon the Wax; so doth God stamp the print and effigies of his own beauty upon his children.