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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.
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.
9. The last sign is, He who is a childe of God, will labour to make others the children of God; the holy seed of grace propagates, Gal. 4.19. Phil•m. 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 childe a childe of the most High. There are two Reasons why a godly parent will endeavour to bring his childe into the heavenly Kindred.
1. Out of conscience: A good parent sees the injury he hath done his child; he hath conveyed the plague of sin to him, and in conscience he will endeavour to make some recompense: In the old Law, he that had smitten and wounded another, was bound to see him healed, and pay for his cure. Parents have given their children a wound in their souls, and therefore must do what in them lies, by admonition, prayers, tears, to see the wound healed.
1. Out of conscience: A good parent sees the injury he hath done his childe; he hath conveyed the plague of sin to him, and in conscience he will endeavour to make some recompence: In the old Law, he that had smitten and wounded another, was bound to see him healed, and pay for his cure. Parents have given their children a wound in their souls, and therefore must do what in them lies, by admonition, prayers, tears, to see the wound healed.