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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.
Privi∣ledge. 4 4. If we are children, then God will provide for us; a father will take care for his children; he gives them allowance, and lays up a portion, 2 Cor. 12.14. so doth our heavenly Father.
Privi∣ledge. 4 4. If we are children, then God will provide for us; a father will take care for his children; he gives them allowance, and layes up a portion, 2 Cor. 12.14. so doth our heavenly Father.
1. He gives us our allowance, Gen. 48.15. The God which fed me all my life long unto this day. Whence is our daily bread, but from his daily care? God will not let his children starve, though our unbelief is ready sometimes to question his goodness, and say, Can God prepare a Table? See what arguments Christ brings to prove Gods paternal care for his children, Matth. 6.26. Behold the fowls of the air, they sow not, neither do they reap, yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Doth a man feed his bird, and will he not feed his child? Luke 12.27. Consider the Lilies how they grow, they toil not, they spin not; if then God so clothe the grass, &c? Doth God clothe ⟨p. 329⟩the Lilies, and will he not clothe his Lambs? 1 Pet. 5.7. the Lord careth for us. As long as his heart is full of love, so long his head will be full of care. This should be as physic to kill the worm of unbelief.