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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. The prayers of Gods children are believing prayers: Prayer is the key, Faith is the hand that turns it; Faith feathers the Arrow of prayer, and makes it pierce ⟨p. 304⟩the Throne of grace. Matth. 21.22. Whatever you shall ask in prayer believing, ye shall receive. Whereupon saith Hierom*, I would not presume to pray, unless I bring faith along with me; to pray, and not believe, is (as one saith) a kind of jeer offered to God*; as if we thought either he did not hear, or he would not grant.
- *Non orarem, nisi crederem.
- *Irrisio Dei est. Pelican.
That Faith may be animated in prayer, we must bring Christ in our Arms when we appear before God. 1 Sam. 7.9. And Samuel took a sucking Lamb, and offered it for a burnt-offering, and Samuel cried unto the Lord for Israel, and the Lord heard him; this sucking Lamb typified Christ. When we come to God in prayer, we must bring the Lamb Christ along with us. Themistocles carried the Kings son in his Arms, and so pacified the King when he was angry*; the children of God present Christ in the Arms of their Faith.
That Faith may be animated in prayer, we must bring Christ in our Arms when we appear before God.