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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.
4. Christ is all in regard of Divine assistance; a Christians strength lies in Christ: Phil. 4.13. [Greek or Hebrew], I can do all things through Christ. Whence is it a Christian is able to do duty, to resist tentation, but through Christs strengthening*? Whence is it that a sparkle of grace lives in a Sea of corruption, the storms of persecution blowing, but that Christ holds this sparkle in the hollow of his hand? Whence is it that the roaring Lyon hath not devoured the Saints, but that the Lyon of the Tribe of Judah hath defended them? Christ not only gives us our Crown, but our Shield; he not only gives us our garland when we overcome, but our strength whereby we overcome. Rev. 12.11. They overcame him (that is, the accuser of the Brethren) by the blood of the Lamb. Christ keeps the Fort-royal of grace that it be not blown up; Peters shield was bruised, but Christ kept it that was not broken. I prayed for thee that thy faith fail not, Luke 22.31. [Greek or Hebrew], that it be not in a total Eclipse. The Crown […] all the Saints victories must be set upon the head of Christ. Rom. 8.38. In all these things we are more than Conquerors through Christ. Write the name of Michael upon all your conquests.
4. Christ is all in regard of Divine assistance; a Christians strength lies in Christ: Phil. 4.13. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, I can do all things through Christ. Whence is it a Christian is able to do duty, to resist tentation, but through Christs strengthning*? Whence is it that a sparkle of grace lives in a Sea of corruption, the storms of persecution blowing, but that Christ holds this sparkle in the hollow of his hand? Whence is it that the roaring Lyon hath not devoured the Saints, but that the Lyon of the Tribe of Judah hath defended them? Christ not only gives us our Crown, but our Shield; he not only gives us our garland when we overcome, but our strength whereby we overcome.