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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.
6. Another sign of Adoption, is love to them that §6are children. Gods children are knit together with the bond of love; as all the members of the body are knit together by several nerves and ligaments: If we are born of God, then we love the brotherhood, 1 Pet. 2.17. Idem est motus animae in imaginem & rem; he that loves the person, loves the picture: The children of God are his walking pictures; and if we are of God, we love those who have his Effigies and Portraiture drawn upon their souls: If we are born of God, we love the Saints notwithstanding their infirmities; Children love one another, though they have some imperfections of nature, a squint-eye, or a crooked back. We love gold in the Oar, though it have some drossiness in it; the best Saints have their blemishes: We read of the spot of Gods children, Deutr. 32.5. A Saint in this life, is like a fair face with a scar in it: If we are born of God, we love his children though they are poor; we love to see the image and picture of our father, though hung in never so poor a ⟨p. 308⟩Frame; we love to see a rich Christ in a poor man.
6. Another sign of Adoption, is love to them that §6are children. Gods children are knit together with the bond of love; as all the members of the body are knit together by several nerves and ligaments: If we are born of God, then we love the brotherhood, 1 Pet. 2.17. Idem est motus animae in imaginem & rem; he that loves the person, loves the picture: The children of God are his walking pictures; and if we are of God, we love those who have his Effigies and Pourtraiture drawn upon their souls: If we are born of God, we love the Saints notwithstanding their infirmities; Children love one another, though they have some imperfections of nature, a squint-eye, or a crooked back. We love gold in the Oar, though it have some drossiness in it; the best Saints have their blemishes: We read of the spot of Gods children, Deutr. 32.5. A Saint in this life, is like a fair face with a scar in it: If we are born of God, we love his children though they are poor; we love to see the image and picture of our father, though hung in never so poor a