A96093:1050
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.
5. Those who are Gods children, and are born of ⟨p. 307⟩God, are of a more noble and celestial spirit than men of the world; they mind [Greek or Hebrew], things above*: 1 John 5.4. Whatsoever is born of God, [Greek or Hebrew], overcometh the world. The children of God live in an higher Region, they are compared to Eagles, Isa. 40.31. in regard of their sublimeness and heavenly-mindedness; their souls are fled aloft, Christ is in their heart. Col. 1.27. and the world is under their feet, Rev. 12.1. Men of the world are ever tumbling in thick clay; they are terrae filii; not Eagles, but Earth-worms; the Saints are of another spirit, they are born of God, and walk with God, as the child walks with the father. Noah walked with God, Gen. 6.9. Gods children show their high Pedigree in their heavenly Conversation, Phil. 3.21.
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