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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.
The Proposition out of the words, is, Doctr. that Jesus Christ is the quintessence of all good things, He is all.
1. Sometimes faith is said to be all, Gal. 5.6. nothing availeth but faith; faith is all, organice, as it is an instrument to lay hold on Christ, whereby we are saved; as a man is saved by catching hold on a Bough.
2. Sometimes the new creature is said to be all, Gal. 6.15. Nothing availeth but a new creature; the new creature is all dispositive, as it qualifies and fits us for glory; without holiness no man shall see the Lord, ⟨p. 420⟩Hebr. 12.14. It is a saying of Chrysostom, at the day of judgement God will ask that question as our Saviour did, Matth. 22.20. Whose image and superscription is this? So will God say, Whose image is this? if thou canst not show him his image consisting in holiness, he will reject thee; thus the new creature is all.
2. Sometimes the new creature is said to be all, Gal. 6.15. Nothing availeth but a new creature; the new creature is all dispositive, as it qualifies and fits us for glory; without holiness no man shall see the Lord, ⟨p. 420⟩