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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.
6. The Saints may be said in this life to be blessed, because all things tend to make them blessed. Rom. 8.28. All things work for good to them that love God: We say to him that hath every thing falling out for the best, You are an happy man; the Saints are very happy, for all things have a tendency to their good; prosperity doth them good, adversity doth them good; nay, sin turns to their good; every trip makes them more watchful; their maladies are their medicines; are not they happy persons, that have every wind blowing them to the right Port?
6. The Saints may be said in this life to be blessed, because all things tend to make them blessed. Rom. 8.28. All things work for good to them that love God: We say to him that hath every thing falling out for the best, You are an happy man; the Saints are very happy, for all things haue a tendency to their good; prosperity doth them good, adversity doth them good; nay, sin turns to their good; every trip makes them more watchful; their maladies are their medicines; are not they happy persons, that have every wind blowing them to the right Port?
7. A Saint may be said to be blessed, because part of him is already blessed; he is blessed in his head; Christ his head is in glory; Christ and believers make one body mystical, their head is gotten into heaven.
Use 1. Inform. Branch 1. See the difference between Use 1 a wicked man and a godly;1 let a wicked man have never so many comforts, still he is cursed; let a godly man have Branch 1 never so many crosses, still he is blessed; let a wicked man have the candle of God shining on him,