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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. 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 ⟨p. 339⟩fit to inherit. Col. 1.12. Giving thanks to the Father, who hath made us meet for the inheritance: Therefore it being in his power to make us better, and to work in us an idoneity, and meetness for the inheritance, certainly he will never finally disinherit.
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. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, 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