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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. A damnatory sentence cannot pass upon the children Arg. 2 of God, because they are so Gods children, as withal they are Christs Spouse, Cant. 4.11. There is a marriage-union between Christ and the Saints; every child of God ⟨p. 340⟩is a part of Christ, he is Christ Mystical. Now, shall a member of Christ perish? A child of God cannot perish, but Christ must perish. Jesus Christ who is the husband, is the Judge, and will he condemn his own Spouse?
Arg. 3 3. Every child of God is transformed into the likeness of Christ; he hath the same spirit, the same judgement, the same will, he is a lively picture of Christ; as Christ bears the Saints names upon his breast, so they bear his image upon their hearts, Gal. 4.19. Will Christ suffer his own image to be destroyed? Theodosius counted them Traitors who defaced his image; Christ will not let his image in believers be defaced and rent; he will not endure to see his own picture take fire; the Sea hath not only stinking carrion, but jewels thrown into it; but none of Gods jewels shall ever be thrown into the dead Sea of hell.
Arg. 3 3. Every child of God is transformed into the likeness of Christ; he hath the same spirit, the same judgement, the same will, he is a lively picture of Christ; as Christ bears the Saints names upon his breast, so they bear his image upon their hearts, Gal. 4.19. Will Christ suffer his own image to be destroyed? Theodosius counted them Traytors who defaced his image; Christ will not let his image in believers be defaced and rent; he will not endure to see his own picture take fire; the Sea hath not only stinking carrion, but jewels thrown into it; but none of Gods jewels shall ever be thrown into the dead Sea of hell.