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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.
1. The Subject, Christ; dulce Nomen Jesus, his Name is sweet, it is as ointment poured forth, Cant. 1.3. It was Jobs wish, Oh that my words were now written, that they were graven with an iron pen, and laid in the Rock for ever, Job 19.23. And it is my wish, O that this Name (this sweet Name) of Christ, were now written, that it were graven with the pen of the Holy Ghost in our hearts for ever; the name of Christ hath in it, saith Chrysostom, a thousand treasuries of joy.
1. The Subject, Christ; dulce Nomen Jesu, his Name is sweet, it is as oyntment poured forth, Cant. 1.3. It was Jobs wish, Oh that my words were now written, that they were graven with an iron pen, and laid in the Rock for ever, Job 19.23. And it is my wish, O that this Name (this sweet Name) of Christ, were now written, that it were graven with the pen of the Holy Ghost in our hearts for ever; the name of Christ hath in it, saith Chrysostom, a thousand treasuries of joy.
2. The Predicate, All in all; Christ is all fullness, all sweetness; he is all that is imaginable, all that is desirable; he who hath Christ, can have no more, for Christ is all.
2. The Predicate, All in all; Christ is all fulness, all sweetness; he is all that is imaginable, all that is desirable; he who hath Christ, can have no more, for Christ is all.