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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.
1. In time of desertion God leaves in his children a seed of comfort, 1 John 3.9. his seed remaineth in him. Answ. 1 This seed of God, is a seed of comfort. Though Gods children in desertion want the seal of the Spirit, yet they have the Unction of the Spirit, 1 John 2.27. Though they want the Sun, yet they have a day-star in their hearts; as the tree in winter, though it hath lost its leaves and fruit, yet there is sap in the root: So, in the winter of desertion, there is the sap of grace in the root of the heart; as it is with the Sun masking it self with a cloud, when it denies light to the earth, yet it gives forth its influence: so though Gods dear adopted ones may lose the light of his countenance, yet they have the influence of his grace.
1. In time of desertion God leaves in his children a seed of comfort, 1 John 3.9. his seed remaineth in him. Answ. 1 This seed of God, is a seed of comfort. Though Gods children in desertion want the seale of the Spirit, yet they have the Unction of the Spirit, 1 John 2.27. Though they want the Sun, yet they have a day-star in their hearts; as the tree in winter, though it hath lost its leaves and fruit, yet there is sap in the root: So, in the winter of desertion, there is the sap of grace in the root of the heart; as it is with the Sun masking it self with a cloud, when it denies light to the earth, yet it gives forth its influence: so though Gods dear adopted ones may lose the light of his countenance, yet they have the influence of his grace.
Quest. What grace appears in the time of desertion?