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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
Appendix › Christs various fullness.Appendix › Christs various fulness.
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.
In the Text there is a Negation and an Assumption; something the Apostle sets down privatively, and something positively.
1. Privatively. Saint Paul tells the Colossians what will not avail them; neque Circumcisio, neque Praeputium; neither Circumcision, nor uncircumcision availeth, &c. Circumcision was a great privilege, it w•• a badge and cognizance to distinguish the people of God from ⟨p. 418⟩those who were exteri and foreign; it was a Pale between the Garden enclosed, and the Common. The people of circumcision were a people of Gods circumspection, they were under his eye, and his wing; they were [Greek or Hebrew], his household family; and rather than they should want, God would make the heavens a Granary, and rain down Manna upon them; he would set the Rock abroach, and make it a living Spring; how glorious was circumcision! Rom. 9.4, 5. Who are Israelites, to whom pertaineth the adoption and the glory, whose are the Fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came. What rich jewels hung upon Israels Crown! but in matters of salvation, all this was nothing, neither circumcision, nor uncircumcision, &c. From whence we may observe:
1. Privatively. Saint Paul tells the Colossians what will not avail them; neque Circumcisio, neque Praeputium; neither Circumcision, nor uncircumcision availeth, &c. Circumcision was a great priviledge, it w•• a badge and cognizance to distinguish the people of God from ⟨p. 418⟩those who were exteri and forraign; it was a Pale between the Garden enclosed, and the Common. The people of circumcision were a people of Gods circumspection, they were under his eye, and his wing; they were 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, his houshold family; and rather than they should want, God would make the heavens a Granary, and rain down Manna upon them; he would set the Rock abroach, and make it a living Spring; how glorious was circumcision!