A96093:1382
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.
8. While we suffer for Christ, we suffer with Christ. Rom. 8.17. If we suffer with him, &c. Jesus Christ bears part of the suffering with us; oh saith the Christian, I shall never be able to hold out; but remember thou sufferest with Christ, he helps thee to suffer. As our blessed Saviour said, John 16.32. I am not alone, the Father is with me: So a believer may say, I am not alone, my Christ is with me, he bears the heaviest end of the ⟨p. 397⟩Cross. 2 Cor. 12.9. My grace is sufficient for thee. Deutr. 33.27. Underneath are the everlasting arms; if Christ put the yoke of persecution over us, he will put his arms under us; the Lord Jesus will not only crown us when we conquer, but he will enable us to conquer; when the Dragon fights against the godly, Christ is that Michael which stands up for them, and helps them to over-come, Dan. 12.1.
8. While we suffer for Christ, we suffer with Christ. Rom. 8.17. If we suffer with him, &c. Jesus Christ bears part of the suffering with us; oh saith the Christian, I shall never be able to hold out; but remember thou sufferest with Christ, he helps thee to suffer. As our blessed Saviour said, John 16.32. I am not alone, the Father is with me: So a believer may say, I am not alone, my Christ is with me, he bears the heaviest end of the ⟨p. 397⟩Cross. 2 Cor. 12.9. My grace is sufficient for thee. Deutr. 33.27. Underneath are the everlasting arms; if Christ put the yoke of persecution over us, he will put his armes under us; the Lord Jesus will not only crown us when we conquer, but he will enable us to conquer; when the Dragon fights against the godly, Christ is that Michael which stands up for them, and helps them to over-come,