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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. A Regenerating work. 2. A Supplicating work. 3. A Witnessing work.
1. A Regenerating work; whomsoever the Spirit adopts, it regenerates; Gods children are said to be born of the Spirit, John 3.5. Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God; we must first be born of the Spirit, before we are baptized with this new name of sons and daughters; we are not Gods children by creation but renovation; not by our first birth, but our new-birth. This New-birth produced by the Word as the material cause*, and by the Spirit as the efficient cause, is nothing else but a change of nature, Rom. 12.2. which though it be not a perfect change, yet is a thorough change, 1 Thes. 5.23. This change of heart is as necessary* as salvation.
1. A Regenerating work; whomsoever the Spirit adopts, it regenerates; Gods children are said to be born of the Spirit, John 3.5. Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God; we must first be born of the Spirit, before we are baptized with this new name of sons and daughters; we are not Gods children by creation but renovation; not by our first birth, but our new-birth. This New-birth produced by the Word as the material cause*, and by the Spirit as the efficient cause, is nothing else but a change of nature,