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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.
Doctr. That external privileges commend no man to God; whether wise, or rich, or noble, this doth not set us off in Gods eye. 1 Cor. 1.26. Not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called. God sees not as man sees; we are taken with beauty and parts; these things avail not with God, God lays his left hand on these, as Jacob did upon Manasseh, Gen. 48.14. God often passeth by those who cast a greater splendour and lustre in the world, and looks upon them of an inferior Alloy; the reason is, that no flesh should glory in his presence, 1 Cor. 1.29. If God should graft his grace only upon wisdom and parts, some would be ready to say, My wisdom, or my eloquence, or my nobility hath saved me; therefore not many wise, not many noble are called. God will have no priding or vaunting in the creature.
Doctr. That external priviledges commend no man to God; whether wise, or rich, or noble, this doth not set us off in Gods eye. 1 Cor. 1.26. Not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called. God sees not as man sees; we are taken with beauty and parts; these things avail not with God, God lays his left hand on these, as Jacob did upon Manasseh, Gen. 48.14. God often passeth by those who cast a greater splendor and lustre in the world, and looks upon them of an inferiour Alloy; the reason is, that no flesh should glory in his presence, 1 Cor. 1.29. If God should graft his grace only upon wisdom and parts, some would be ready to say, My wisdom, or my eloquence, or my nobility hath saved me; therefore not many wise, not many noble are called. God will have no priding or vaunting in the creature.