A96093:1458
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.
Use. Use. Rest not in outward privileges or excellencies, these are •o stocks to graft the hopes of salvation upon; many of Christs kindred went to hell. Paul is called ⟨p. 419⟩the servant of the Lord, Rom. 1.1. And James is called the brother of the Lord, Gal. 1.19. It is better to be the servant of the Lord, than the brother of the Lord. The Virgin Mary was saved, not as she was the mother of Christ, but as she was the daughter of faith; 'tis grace, not blood gives the precedency; an heart that hath Christ formed in it, is Gods delight, and this brings me to the next.
Use. Use. Rest not in outward priviledges or excellencies, these are •o stocks to graft the hopes of salvation upon; many of Christs kindred went to hell. Paul is called ⟨p. 419⟩the servant of the Lord, Rom. 1.1. And James is called the brother of the Lord, Gal. 1.19. It is better to be the servant of the Lord, than the brother of the Lord. The Virgin Mary was saved, not as she was the mother of Christ, but as she was the daughter of faith; 'tis grace, not blood gives the precedency; an heart that hath Christ formed in it, is Gods delight, and this brings me to the next.
2. The Apostle sets down something positively; but Christ is all in all; in which words there is,