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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.
A wicked man being out of Christ, is out of favour; as his •oughing is sin, Prov. 21.14. so his praying is […] ••ov. 15.8. God will not come near him, his brea•• infectious; God will hear his sins, and not his prayers; but now in Christ God accepts us. Eccles. 9.7. Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart, for God now accepts thy works; as Joseph did present his Brethren before Pharaoh, and brought them into favour with the King, Gen. 47.2. so ⟨p. 423⟩the Lord Jesus carries the names of the Saints upon his breast, and presents them before his Father, so bringing them into repute and honour; through Christ God will treat and parley with us, he speaks to us, as Isa. 62.4. Thou shalt no more be termed forsaken, but thou shalt be called HephꝪibah, for the Lord delighteth in thee. Through the red glass every thing appears of a red colour; through the blood of Christ we look of a sanguine complexion, ruddy and beautiful in Gods eyes.
A wicked man being out of Christ, is out of favour; as his •oughing is sin, Prov. 21.14. so his praying is 〈…〉 ••ov. 15.8. God will not come near him, his brea•• infectious; God will hear his sins, and not his prayers; but now in Christ God accepts us. Eccles. 9.7. Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart, for God now accepts thy works; as Joseph did present his Brethren before Pharaoh, and brought them into favour with the King,