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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.
The high privileges of Gods children.
The high priviledges of Gods children.
7. THE seventh particular to be explained, is, To show the glorious privileges of Gods children; and what I shall say now, belongs not to the wicked; it is Children's bread: The fruit of Paradise was to be kept ⟨p. 321⟩with a flaming Sword; so these sweet and heart-ravishing privileges are to be kept with a flaming Sword, that impure sensual persons may not touch them. There are twelve rare Privileges which belong to the children of God.
7. THE seventh particular to be explained, is, To shew the glorious priviledges of Gods children; and what I shall say now, belongs not to the wicked; it is Childrens bread: The fruit of Paradise was to be kept ⟨p. 321⟩with a flaming Sword; so these sweet and heart-ravishing priviledges are to be kept with a flaming Sword, that impure sensual persons may not touch them. There are twelve rare Priviledges which belong to the children of God.
1. If we are children, then God will be full of tender Privi∣ledge. 1 love and affection towards us; a father compassionates his child. Psal. 103.13. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. Oh the yearning of Gods bowels to his children!