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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. In regard of Christ; it is suitable to his dignity and state; he is Lord Paramount, this name is written on his Thigh and Vesture, King of Kings, Rev. 19.16. ⟨p. 404⟩And shall not a King appoint Laws to his subjects? it is one of the jura regalia, the flowers of the Crown to enact Laws and Statutes; what is a King without his Laws? And shall not Christ (by whom Kings reign*) put forth his Royal Edicts by which the world shall be governed?
1. In regard of Christ; it is sutable to his dignity and state; he is Lord Paramount, this name is written on his Thigh and Vesture, King of Kings, Rev. 19.16. ⟨p. 404⟩And shall not a King appoint Laws to his subjects? it is one of the jura regalia, the flowres of the Crown to enact Laws and Statutes; what is a King without his Laws? And shall not Christ (by whom Kings reign*) put forth his Royal Edicts by which the world shall be governed?
2. In regard of the Saints; it is well for the people of God that they have Laws to bind and check the exorbitancies of their unruly hearts; how far would the Vine spread its luxuriant branches were it not pruned, and tied? the heart would be ready to run wild in sin, if it had not affliction to prune it, and the Laws of Christ to bind it; the precepts of Christ are called [Greek or Hebrew], a yoke,