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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. In our tentations: A child, when another strikes him, runs to his Father and complains; so when the Devil strikes us by his temptations, let us run to our Father; Father, Satan assaults, and hurls in his fiery darts; he would not only wound my peace, but thy glory; Father, take off the Tempter; 'tis thy child that is worried by this red Dragon; Father, wilt not thou bruise Satan under my feet! What a sweet privilege is this, when any burden lies upon our spirits, we may go to our Father, and unload all our cares and griefs into his bosom!
2. In our tentations: A childe, when another strikes him, runs to his Father and complains; so when the Devil strikes us by his temptations, let us run to our Father; Father, Satan assaults, and hurles in his fiery darts; he would not only wound my peace, but thy glory; Father, take off the Tempter; 'tis thy childe that is worried by this red Dragon; Father, wilt not thou bruise Satan under my feet! What a sweet priviledge is this, when any burden lies upon our spirits, we may go to our Father, and unload all our cares and griefs into his bosome!
Privi∣ledge. 8 8. If we are children, then we are in a state of freedom. Claudius Lysias valued his freedom of Rome at an high rate; a state of son-ship is a state of freedom; this is not to be understood in an Antinomian sense, that the children of God are freed from the rule of the Moral Law; this is such a freedom as Rebels take: Was it ever heard that a child should be freed from duty to his parents? But the freedom which Gods children have, is an holy freedom; they are freed ab imperio carnis, from the Law of sin, Rom. 8.2.
Privi∣ledge. 8 8. If we are children, then we are in a state of freedom. Claudius Lysias valued his freedom of Rome at an high rate; a state of son-ship is a state of freedom; this is not to be understood in an Antinomian sense, that the children of God are freed from therule of the Moral Law; this is such a freedom as Rebels take: Was it ever heard that a childe should be freed from duty to his parents? But the freedom which Gods children have, is an holy freedom; they are freed ab imperio carnis, from the Law of sin,