A96093:1101
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 children of God by Adoption, are in some sense above the Angels, and that two ways.
2. The children of God by Adoption, are in some sense above the Angels, and that two wayes.
1. The Angels are servants to Gods children. Hebr. 1.14. Though they are glorious spirits, yet ministering spirits. The Angels are the Saints servitors; we have examples in Scripture of Angels attending the persons of Gods children; we read of Angels waiting upon Abraham, Moses, Daniel, the Virgin Mary, &c. Nor do the Angels only service to Gods children while they live, but at their death too. Lazarus had a Convoy of Angels to carry him into the Paradise of God; thus we see the children of God have a preeminence and dignity above the Angels; the Angels are their servants both living and dying and this is the more to be observed, because it is never said in Scripture that the children of God are servants to the Angels.
1. The Angels are servants to Gods children. Hebr. 1.14. Though they are glorious spirits, yet ministring spirits. The Angels are the Saints servitors; we have examples in Scripture of Angels attending the persons of Gods children; we read of Angels waiting upon Abraham, Moses, Daniel, the Virgin Mary, &c. Nor do the Angels only service to Gods children while they live, but at their death too. Lazarus had a Convoy of Angels to carry him into the Paradise of God; thus we see the children of God have a preheminence and dignity above the Angels; the Angels are their servants both living and dying and this is the more to be observed, because it is never said in Scripture that the children of God are servants to the Angels.