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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. 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? Psal. 119.100. He had a Father to teach him, God was his Instructor: Psal. 71.17. O God thou hast taught me from my youth. Many a child of God complains of ignorance and dullness; remember this, thy Father will be thy Tutor; he hath promised to give his spirit to lead thee into all truth, John 16.13. And God doth not only inform the understanding, but incline the will; he doth not only teach us what we should do, but enable us to do it. Ezek. 36.27. I will cause you to walk in my statutes. What a glorious privilege is this, to have the star of the world pointing us to Christ, and the load-stone of the Spirit drawing!