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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.
Answ. Answ. But that evil shall not be mortal; as quicksilver is in it self dangerous, but by ointments it is so tempered that it is killed; so sin is in it self deadly, but being tempered with Repentance, and mixed with the sacred ointment of Christs blood, the venomous damning nature of it is taken away.
Answ. Answ. But that evil shall not be mortal; as quicksilver is in it self dangerous, but by oyntments it is so tempered that it is killed; so sin is in it self deadly, but being tempered with Repentance, and mixed with the sacred oyntment of Christs blood, the venemous damning nature of it is taken away.
Privi∣ledge. 6 6. If we are children, then God will reveal to us the great and wonderful things of his Law. Matth. 11.25. I thank thee O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. A father will teach his children; the child goes to his father, Father, Teach me my Lesson; so David goes to God, Psal. 143.10. Teach me to do thy will for thou art my God. The Lord glories in this title, Isa. 48.17. I am the Lord thy God, which teacheth thee to profit. Gods children have that anointing which teacheth them all things necessary to salvation; they see those mysteries which are veiled over to carnal eyes; as Elisha saw those Horses and Chariots of fire, which his servant did not see, 2 Kings 6.17. The adopted see their own sins, Satan's snares, Christs beauty, ⟨p. 331⟩which they whom the god of the world had blinded, cannot discern; whence was it that David understood more than the Ancients?