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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.
3. The creature is nothing to one that is dying; a man at the hour of death is most serious, and is able to give the truest verdict of things; now at such a time the world is nothing, 'tis in an Eclipse, the sorrow of it is real, but the joy imaginary. Oh then what a vast difference is there between Christ and the creature! Christ is all in all, and the creature nothing at all; yet how many damn their souls for nothing?
3. The creature is nothing to one that is dying; a man at the houre of death is most serious, and is able to give the truest verdict of things; now at such a time the world is nothing, 'tis in an Eclipse, the sorrow of it is real, but the joy imaginary. Oh then what a vast difference is there between Christ and the creature! Christ is all in all, and the creature nothing at all; yet how many damn their souls for nothing?
Branch. 3 3. It shows whether the soul is to go in the want of all; go to Christ who is all in all. Dost thou want grace? go to Christ. Col. 2.3. In him are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Christ is the great Lord Treasurer; go then to Christ; say, Lord I am indigent of grace, but in thee are all my fresh springs, fill my Cistern from thy Spring. Lord, I am blind, thou hast eye-salve to anoint me; I am defiled, thou hast water to cleanse me; my heart is hard, thou hast blood to soften me†:* I am empty of grace, bring thy fullness to my emptiness. In all our spiritual wants we should repair to Christ, as Jacobs sons did to their brother Joseph; He opened all the store-houses, Gen. 41.56. and gave to his Brethren corn and provision for the way, Gen. 42.25. Thus the Lord hath made Christ our Joseph, our [Greek or Hebrew],