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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.
2. The Saints are already blessed, because their sins are not imputed to them. Psal. 32.2. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity. Gods not imputing ⟨p. 33⟩iniquity, signifies Gods making of sin not to be; 'tis as if the man had never sinned; the debt-book is cancelled in Christs blood; and if the debtor owe never so much, yet if the creditor cross the book, it is as if he had never owed any thing. Gods not imputing sin, is, that God will never call for the debt; or if it should be called for, it shall be hid out of sight. Jer. 50.20. In those days the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found. Now such a man who hath not sin imputed to him, is blessed; and the reason is, because if sin be not imputed to a man, then the curse is taken away; and if the curse be taken away, then he must needs be blessed.
2. The Saints are already blessed, because their sins are not imputed to them. Psal. 32.2. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity. Gods not imputing ⟨p. 33⟩iniquity, signifies Gods making of sin not to be; 'tis as if the man had never sinned; the debt-book is cancel'd in Christs blood; and if the debtor owe never so much, yet if the creditor cross the book, it is as if he had never owed any thing. Gods not imputing sin, is, that God will never call for the debt; or if it should be called for, it shall be hid out of sight. Jer. 50.20. In those days the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found. Now such a man who hath not sin imputed to him, is blessed; and the reason is, because if sin be not imputed to a man, then the curse is taken away; and if the curse be taken away, then he must needs be blessed.