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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.
Quest. 3 3. What is the difference between poverty of spirit and self-denial? I answer, in some things they agree, in some things they differ. In some things they agree; for the Poor in spirit is an absolute self-denier; he renounceth all opinion of himself; he acknowledgeth his dependence on Christ and free-grace; but in some things they differ; the self-denier parts with the world for Christ, the poor in spirit parts with himself for Christ; i. e. his own righteousness; the poor in spirit sees himself nothing without Christ, the self-denier will leave himself nothing for Christ: And thus I have showed what poverty of spirit is. The words thus opened, present us with this truth.
Quest. 3 3. What is the difference between poverty of spirit and self-denial? I answer, in some things they agree, in some things they differ. In some things they agree; for the Poor in spirit is an absolute self-denier; he renounceth all opinion of himself; he acknowledgeth his dependance on Christ and free-grace; but in some things they differ; the self-denier parts with the world for Christ, the poor in spirit parts with himself for Christ; i. e. his own righteousness; the poor in spirit sees himself nothing without Christ, the self-denier will leave himself nothing for Christ: And thus I have shewed what poverty of spirit is. The words thus opened, present us with this truth.
Doctr. That Christians must be poor in spirit; or thus, Doctr. Poverty of spirit is the jewel which Christians must wear. As the best creature was made out of nothing, namely, light; so when a man sees himself nothing, out of this nothing God makes a most beautiful creature; it is Gods usual method to make a man poor in spirit, and then fill him with the graces of the Spirit; as we deal with a Watch, we take it first in pieces, and then set all the wheels and pins in order: So the Lord doth first take a man all in pieces, shows him his undone condition, and then sets him in frame.
Doctr. That Christians must be poor in spirit; or thus, Doctr. Poverty of spirit is the jewel which Christians must wear. As the best creature was made out of nothing, namely, light; so when a man sees himself nothing, out of this nothing God makes a most beautiful creature; it is Gods usual method to make a man poor in spirit, and then fill him with the graces of the Spirit; as we deal with a Watch, we take it first in pieces, and then set all the wheels and pins in order: So the Lord doth first take a man all in pieces, shews him his undone condition, and then sets him in frame.