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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. THE sixth particular is, the honour and renown §6of Gods children; for the illustration of this observe two things.
1. God makes a precious account of them. 2. He looks upon them as persons of honour.
1. God makes a precious account of them. Isa. 43.4. Since thou wast precious in my sight, &c. A father prizeth his child above his Estate: How dearly did Jacob prize Benjamin! his life was bound up in the life of the Lad, Gen. 44.30. God makes a precious valuation of his children; the wicked are of no account with God, they are vile persons, Nahum. 1.14. I will make thy grave, for thou art vile; therefore the wicked are compared to chaff, Psal. 1.4. to dross, Psal. 119.119. There is little use of a wicked man while he lives, and no loss of him when he dies; there is only a little chaff blown away, ⟨p. 316⟩which may well be spared: But Gods children are precious in his sight, they are his jewels, Mal. 3.17. The wicked are but lumber, which serves only to cumber the ground; but Gods children are his jewels, locked up in the Cabinet of his Decree from all eternity. Gods children are the apple of his eye,