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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. As God gives his children a viaticum, or bait by the way, so he lays up a portion for them; Luke 12.32. It is your Fathers good pleasure to give you a kingdom; our Father keeps the purse, and will give us enough to bear our charges here, and when at death we take shipping, and shall be set upon the shore of eternity, then will our heavenly Father bestow upon us a Kingdom immutable, and immarcessible; lo here a portion which can never be summed up!
2. As God gives his children a viaticum, or bait by the way, so he laies up a portion for them; Luke 12.32. It is your Fathers good pleasure to give you a kingdom; our Father keeps the purse, and will give us enough to bear our charges here, and when at death we take shipping, and shall be set upon the shore of eternity, then will our heavenly Father bestow upon us a Kingdom immutable, and immarcessible; lo here a portion which can never be summed up!
5. If we are children, then God will shield off dangers Privi∣ledge. 5 from us; a father will protect his child from injuries; God ever lies Sentinel to keep off evil from his children.
5. If we are children, then God will sheild off dangers Privi∣ledge. 5 from us; a father will protect his child from injuries; God ever lies Sentinel to keep off evill from his children.
1. Temporal evil. 2. Spiritual evil.