A96093:1376
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.
5. It is that we have engaged our selves to in Baptism; there we took our press-money; we solemnly vowed that ⟨p. 395⟩we would be true to Christs interest, and fight it out under his Banner to the death; and how often have we in the blessed Supper taken the oath of allegiance to Jesus Christ, that we would be his liege servants, and that death should not part us! Now if when being called to it, we refuse to suffer persecution for his Name, Christ will bring our Baptism as an indictment against us; Christ is called the Captain of our salvation, Hebr. 2.10. We have listed our selves by name under this Captain; now if for fear we shall fly from our colours, it is perjury in the highest degree; and how shall we be able to look Christ in the face another day?* That oath which is not kept inviolably, shall be punished infallibly; where doth the flying roll of curses light, but in the house of him that sweareth falsely†.*.
5. It is that we have engaged our selves to in Baptism; there we took our press-money; we solemnly vowed that ⟨p. 395⟩we would be true to Christs interest, and fight it out under his Banner to the death; and how often have we in the blessed Supper taken the oath of allegiance to Jesus Christ, that we would be his liege servants, and that death should not part us! Now if when being called to it, we refuse to suffer persecution for his Name, Christ will bring our Baptisme as an inditement against us; Christ is called the Captain of our salvation, Hebr. 2.10. We have listed our selves by name under this Captain; now if for fear we shall flie from our colours, it is perjury in the highest degree; and how shall we be able to look Christ in the face another day?* That oath which is not kept inviolably, shall be punished infallibly; where doth the flying roule of curses light, but in the house of him that sweareth falsly†.