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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.
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⟩come to Christ; for he is [Greek or Hebrew], all in all.
Branch. 1 1. It shews us the glorious fulness of Jesus Christ; He is all in all. Christ is a Panoply, a Magazin and Store-house of all spiritual riches; you may go with the Bee from flowre to flowre, and suck here and there a little sweetness, but you will never have enough till you ⟨p. 421⟩come to Christ; for he is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, all in all.
Now in particular, Christ is all, in six Respects.
1. Christ is all in regard of righteousness. 1 Cor. 1.30. He is made to us righteousness. The Robe of innocency, like the veil of the Temple, is rent asunder, ours is a ragged righteousness. Isa. 64.6. Our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. As under rags the naked body is seen; so under the rags of our righteousness, the body of death is seen; we can defile our duties, but they cannot justify us; but Christ is all in regard of righteousness.