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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.
5. Death works for good to the children of God; it is like the whirl-wind to the Prophet Elijah, which blew off his mantle, but carried him up to heaven; so death to a child of God is like a boisterous whirl-wind, which blows off the mantle of his flesh, (for the body is but the mantle the soul is wrapped in) but it carries up the soul to God; this is the glorious privilege of the sons of God; every thing that falls out shall do them good; the children of God when they come to heaven (as Chrysostom speaks) shall bless God for all cross Providences.
5. Death works for good to the children of God; it is like the whirle-wind to the Prophet Eliah, which blew off his mantle, but carried him up to heaven; so death to a childe of God is like a boysterous whirle-wind, which blows off the mantle of his flesh, (for the body is but the mantle the soul is wrapped in) but it carries up the soul to God; this is the glorious priviledge of the sons of God; every thing that falls out shall do them good; the children of God when they come to heaven (as Chrysostom speaks) shall bless God for all cross Providences.
Privi∣ledge. 12 12. And lastly, If we are children, we shall never finally perish, John 5.24. John 10.28. Those who are adopted, are out of the power of damnation: Rom. 8.1. [Greek or Hebrew], there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ. Will a father condemn his own son? God will never disinherit any of his children; fathers may disinherit for some fault: Reuben for incest lost the Prerogative of his birth-right, Gen. 49.4. What is the reason Parents disinherit their children? surely this, because they can make them no better, they cannot make them fit for the inheritance; but when we are bad, our heavenly Father knows how to make us better, he can make us