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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.
Reason. Christ must needs be all; for in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead, Col. 2.9. He hath a partnership with God the Father. John 16.15. All that the Father hath is mine; so that there is enough in him to scatter all our fears, to remove all our burdens, to supply all our wants; there can be no defect in that which is infinite.
Reason. Christ must needs be all; for in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead, Col. 2.9. He hath a partnership with God the Father. John 16.15. All that the Father hath is mine; so that there is enough in him to scatter all our fears, to remove all our burdens, to supply all our wants; there can be no defect in that which is infinite.
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Branch. 1 1. It shows us the glorious fullness of Jesus Christ; He is all in all. Christ is a Panoply, a Magazine and Store-house of all spiritual riches; you may go with the Bee from flower to flower, and suck here and there a little sweetness, but you will never have enough till you ⟨p. 421⟩