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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. Consider the honour of Gods children comparatively; and this comparison is double.
Compare the children of God 1. With Adam. 2. With the Angels.
Compare the chidren of God 1. With Adam. 2. With the Angels.
1. Compare the children of God with Adam in a state of innocency. Adam was a person of honour, he was the sole Monarch of the World; all the creatures did veil to him as their Sovereign; he was placed in the garden of Eden, which was a Paradise of pleasure; he was crowned with all the contentments of the Earth; nay more, Adam was Gods lively picture, he was made in the likeness of God himself; yet the state of the meanest of Gods children by Adoption, is far more excellent and honourable than the state of Adam was, when he wore the Robe of innocency; for Adams condition, though it was glorious, yet mutable, and was soon lost; Adam was a bright star, yet a falling star; but Gods children by Adoption, are in a state unalterable. Adam had a posse non peccare, a possibility of standing; but believers have a non posse peccare, an impossibility of falling; once adopted, and ever adopted; as Isaac said, when he had given the blessing to Jacob, I have blessed him, and he shall be blessed, Gen▪ 27.33. So may we say of all Gods children, ⟨p. 319⟩they are adopted, and they shall be adopted; so that Gods children are in a better and more glorious condition now, than Adam was in all his Regal Honour and Majesty.
1. Compare the children of God with Adam in a state of innocency. Adam was a person of honour, he was the sole Monarch of the World; all the creatures did vail to him as their Soveraign; he was placed in the garden of Eden, which was a Paradise of pleasure; he was crowned with all the contentments of the Earth; nay more, Adam was Gods lively picture, he was made in the likeness of God himself; yet the state of the meanest of Gods children by Adoption, is far more excellent and honourable than the state of Adam was, when he wore the Robe of innocency; for Adams condition, though it was glorious, yet mutable, and was soon lost; Adam was a bright star, yet a falling star; but Gods children by Adoption, are in a state unalterable. Adam had a posse non peccare, a possibility of standing; but believers have a non posse peccare, an impossibility of falling; once adopted, and ever adopted; as Isaac said, when he had given the blessing to Jacob, I have blessed him, and he shall be blessed, Gen 27.33. So may we say of all Gods children,