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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. Mercies make the children of God more fruitful; the ground beats the better crop for the cost that is laid ⟨p. 336⟩upon it. God gives his children health, and they spend, and are spent for Christ; he gives them Estates, and they honour the Lord with their substance; the backs and bellies of the poor are the Field where they sow the precious seeds of their charity; a child of God makes his Estate a golden Clasp to bind his heart faster to God, a foot-stool to raise him up higher towards heaven.
2. Mercies make the children of God more fruitful; the ground beats the better crop for the cost that is laid ⟨p. 336⟩upon it. God gives his children health, and they spend, and are spent for Christ; he gives them Estates, and they honour the Lord with their substance; the backs and bellies of the poor are the Field where they sowe the precious seeds of their charity; a childe of God makes his Estate a golden Clasp to binde his heart faster to God, a foot-stool to raise him up higher towards heaven.
2. Ordinances shall work for good to Gods children.
1. The Word preached shall do them good; 'tis a savour of life, 'tis a Lamp to their feet, and a Laver to their hearts; the Word preached is Vehiculum salutis, a Chariot of salvation; 'tis an ingrafting, and a transforming word; it is verbum cum unctione, it not only brings a light with it, but eye-salve, anointing their eyes to see that light; the preaching of the Word is the Lattice where Christ looks forth, and shows himself to his Saints; this golden pipe of the Sanctuary conveys the water of life. To the wicked the Word preached works for evil, even the Word of life becomes a savour of death; the same cause may have divers, nay, contrary effects