A96093:1465
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.
3. Here in the Text Christ is said to be all; but in what sense is Christ all?
1. Christus omnia eminenter; Christ is all by way of eminency; all good things are eminently to be found in him; as the Sun doth virtually contain in it the light of the lesser stars.
2. Christus omnia derivative, Christ is all by way of derivation; all good things are transmitted and conveyed to us through Christ; as your rich commodities, jewels and spices come by Sea; so all heavenly blessings sail to us through the red Sea of Christs blood. Rom. 11.36. Through him are all things. Christ is that spiritual pipe through which the golden oil of mercy empties it self into the soul.
2. Christus omnia derivative, Christ is all by way of derivation; all good things are transmitted and convey'd to us through Christ; as your rich commodities, jewels and spices come by Sea; so all heavenly blessings sail to us through the red Sea of Christs blood. Rom. 11.36. Through him are all things. Christ is that spiritual pipe through which the golden oyle of mercy empties it self into the soul.