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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.
5. Christ is all in regard of pacification; when conscience is in an agony, and burns as hell in the sense of ⟨p. 424⟩Gods wrath*; now Christ is all, he pours the balm of his blood into these wounds; he maketh the storm a calm. Christ doth not only make peace in the Court of heaven, but peace in the Court of conscience; he not only makes peace above us, but within us. Joh. 16. ult. That in me ye might have peace; in me tanquam in font, saith Cyprian; all our golden streams of peace flow from this fountain. John 14.27. Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you. Jesus Christ not only purchased peace for us, but speaks peace to us; he is called the Prince of peace, Isa. 9.6. Peace is a flower of his Crown, he whispers his love to the soul, and sends his Spirit that blessed Dove, which brings an Olive-branch of peace in its mouth, John 16.7. The peace which Christ gives, is peace in trouble. Micah 5.5. And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our Land, and tread in our Palaces. Kings can proclaim war in a time of peace, but Christ proclaims peace in a time of war. Oh how sweet is this peace! 'tis pax supra pacem, as Bernard saith: Austin calls it serenitas mentis, a sweet calm and sabbath in the soul; it is a foretaste of glory, it is a bunch of grapes from the true Vine which cheers the heart, it passeth all understanding, Phil. 4.7. Thus Christ is all in regard of pacification, he makes peace for us and in us; this honey and oil flows out of the Rock Christ.
5. Christ is all in regard of pacification; when conscience is in an agony, and burns as hell in the sense of ⟨p. 424⟩