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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.
1. Whatever you deny for Christ, you shall find again in Christ. Matth. 19.29. Every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my Names sake, shall receive an hundred fold, and shall inherit everlasting life. Here is a very saving bargain; is it not gain enough to have ten in the hundred, nay, above an hundred for one.
1. Whatever you deny for Christ, you shall finde again in Christ. Matth. 19.29. Every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my Names sake, shall receive an hundred fold, and shall inherit everlasting life. Here is a very saving bargain; is it not gain enough to have ten in the hundred, nay, above an hundred for one.
2. 'Tis but equity that you should deny your selves for Christ; did not Jesus Christ deny himself for you? he denied his joy, he left his fathers bosom, he denied his honour, he endured the shame, Hebr. 12.2. He denied his life, he poured out his blood as a sacrifice upon the Alta• of the Cross, Col. 1.20. Did Christ deny himself for you, and will not you deny your selves for him?
2. 'Tis but equity that you should deny your selves for Christ; did not Jesus Christ deny himself for you? he denied his joy, he left his fathers bosome, he denied his honour, he endured the shame, Hebr. 12.2. He denied his life, he poured out his blood as a sacrifice upon the Alta• of the Cross,