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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.
SECT. 6.
Inferences drawn from the Proposition.
1. IT shows us what the nature of Christianity is, viz. Use 1 Sanctity joined with suffering;1 a true Saint carries Christ in his heart, and the Cross on his shoulders. 2 Tim. Branch. 1 3.12. All that will live godly in Christ Jesus, shall suffer persecution. Christ and his Cross are never parted; 'tis too much for a Christian to have two heavens; one here, and another hereafter*. Christs Kingdom on earth, is Regnum Crucis: What is the meaning of the shield of faith, the helmet of hope, the breast-plate of patience? but to imply that we must encounter with sufferings. It is one of the titles given to the Church, Afflicted, Isa. 54.11. Persecution is the Legacy bequeathed by Christ to his people. John 16. ult. In the world [Greek or Hebrew], ye shall have tribulation. Christs Spouse is a lily among thorns. Christs sheep must expect to lose their golden Fleece; this the flesh doth not like to hear of; therefore Christ calls persecution the Cross, Matth. 16.24