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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.
2. Christ is all in regard of Sanctification. 1 Cor. 1.30. He is made to us Sanctification. Sanctification is the spiritual enamel and embroidery of the soul; 'tis nothing else but Gods putting upon us the jewels of holiness, the Angels glory by it; we are made as the Kings daughter, all glorious within, Psal. 45.13. This doth disponere ad coelum, it doth tune and prepare the soul for heaven; it turns iron into gold, it makes the hea• which was Satan's Picture, Christs Epistle. The Virg•• •••her 2.12. had their days of purification; they […] first to be perfumed and anointed, and then they were to stand before the King; we must have the anointing of God, 1 John 2.27. and be perfumed with the graces of the Spirit, those sweet odours, and then we shall stand before the King of heaven; there must be first our days of purification ⟨p. 422⟩before our days of glorification; what a blessed work is this! a soul beautified and adorned with grace, is like the coelum stellatum, the firmament bespangled with glittering stars. O what a Metamorphize is there! I may allude to that, Cant. 3.6. Who is this that comes out of the wilderness with myrrh and frankincense, and all the powders of the Merchant? So, who is this that comes out of the wilderness of sin, perfumed with all the graces of the Spirit? Holiness is the signature and engraving of God upon the soul; but whence is this? Christ is all, he is made to us Sanctification; he it is that sends his Spirit into our hearts to be a refiners fire, to burn up our dross, and make our graces sparkle like gold in the Furnace; Christ ariseth upon the soul with healing under his wings, Mal. 4.2. He heals the understanding, and saith, Let there be light; he heals the heart by dissolving the stone in his blood; he heals the will, by filing off its rebellion. Thus he is all in regard of Sanctification.