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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.
8. The eighth sign, is, compliance with the will of §8our heavenly Father. A child-like heart answers to Gods call, as the echo answers to the voice; it is like the flower that opens and shuts with the Sun; so it opens to God, and shuts to Tentation; this is the Motto of a new-born Saint, Speak Lord, thy servant hears, 1 Sam. 3.9. When God bids his children pray in their Closets, mortify sin, suffer for his Name, they are ambitious to obey, they will lay down their lives at their Fathers call. Hypocrites court God, and speak him fair, but refuse to go on his errand; they are not children, but rebels.
8. The eighth sign, is, compliance with the will of §8our heavenly Father. A child-like heart answers to Gods call, as the eccho answers to the voyce; it is like the flower that opens and shuts with the Sun; so it opens to God, and shuts to Tentation; this is the Motto of a new-born Saint, Speak Lord, thy servant hears, 1 Sam. 3.9. When God bids his children pray in their Closets, mortifie sin, suffer for his Name, they are ambitious to obey, they will lay down their lives at their Fathers call. Hypocrites court God, and speak him fair, but refuse to go on his errand; they are not children, but rebels.
9. The last sign is, He who is a child of God, will labour to make others the children of God; the holy seed of grace propagates, Gal. 4.19. Philem. 10. He who is of the seed-Royal, will be ambitiously desirous to bring others into the Kindred. Art thou divinely adopted, thou wilt studiously endeavour to make thy child a child of the most High. There are two Reasons why a godly parent will endeavour to bring his child into the heavenly Kindred.