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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. 10 10. If we are children, then we shall have our Fathers blessing. Isa. 61.9. They are the seed which the Lord hath blessed. We read that Isaac blessed his son Jacob, Gen. 27.28. God give thee of the dew of heaven; which was not only a prayer for Jacob, but a Prophecy of that happiness and blessing which should come upon him and his posterity*. Thus every adopted child hath his heavenly Fathers benediction, there is a special blessing distilled into all that he possesseth. Exod. 23.25. Psal. 29.11. The Lord will bless his people with peace: He will not only give them peace, but they shall have it with a blessing; the wicked have the things they enjoy with Gods leave, but the adopted have them with Gods love; the wicked have them by Providence, the Saints by Promise. Isaac had but one blessing to bestow, Gen. ⟨p. 335⟩27.38. Hast thou but one blessing my father? But God hath more blessings than one for his children; he blesseth them in their souls, bodies, names, estate, posterity; he blesseth them with the upper-springs, and the nether-springs; he multiplies to bless them, and his blessing cannot be reversed; as Isaac said concerning Jacob, I have blessed him, yea, and he shall be blessed, Gen. 27.33. so God blesseth his children, and they shall be blessed.
Privi∣ledge. 10 10. If we are children, then we shall have our Fathers blessing. Isa. 61.9. They are the seed which the Lord hath blessed. We read that Isaac blessed his son Jacob,