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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.
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, Job 29.3. let his way be so smooth that he meets with no rubs; let him have success, yet still there is a curse entailed upon him; you may read the sinners Inventory: Deut. 28.16, 17, 18. He is not more full of sin than he is of a curse; though perhaps he blesseth himself in his wickedness, yet he is heir to Gods curse; all the curses of the Bible are his portion, and at the day of death this portion is sure to be paid; but a godly man in the midst of all his miseries is blessed; he may be under the cross, but not under a curse.
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Branch 2. It shows the privilege of a believer; he Branch 2 not only shall be blessed, but he is blessed; blessedness is begun in him: Psal. 115.15. You are blessed of the Lord: Let the condition of the Righteous be never so sad, yet it is blessed; he is blessed in affliction: