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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.
3. They are blessed for whom Christ prays, but such as are persecuted, have Christ praying for them. John 17.12. Keep through thy own Name those whom thou hast given me; which prayer, though made for all believers, yet especially for his Apostles, which he fore-told should be Martyrs, John 16.2. Now if persecution cannot hinder Christs prayer for us, then it cannot impede or obstruct our blessedness.
4. They are blessed that have sin purged out; but persecution purgeth out sin, Isa. 27.9. Hebr. 12.11. Persecution is a corrosive to eat out the proud flesh, it is a Fan to winnow us, a fire to refine us; persecution is the physic God applies to his children, to carry away their ill humours; that surely which purgeth out sin, cannot hinder blessedness.
4. They are blessed that have sin purged out; but persecution purgeth out sin, Isa. 27.9. Hebr. 12.11. Persecution is a corrosive to eat out the proud flesh, it is a Fan to winnow us, a fire to refine us; persecution is the physick God applies to his children, to carry away their ill humours; that surely which purgeth out sin, cannot hinder blessedness.