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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.
Branch. 4 4. If Christ be all, see here a Christians Inventory; ⟨p. 427⟩how rich is he that hath Christ*! he hath all that may make him completely happy. Plutarch reports that the wife of Phocion being asked where her jewels were, she answered, My husband and his triumphs are my jewels! so if a Christian be asked where are his riches, he will say, Christ is my riches. A true Saint cannot be poor; if you look into his house, perhaps he hath scarce a bed to lie on. 1 Cor. 4.11. Even to this present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are naked, and have no certain dwelling place. Come to many a child of God, and bid him make his will, he saith as Peter, Acts 3.6. Silver and gold have I none; yet he can at the same time make his triumph with the Apostle, 1 Cor. 6.10. As having nothing, yet possessing all; he hath Christ who is all. When a believer can call nothing his, he can say all is his. The Tabernacle was covered with Badgers skins, Exod. 25. yet most of it was of gold; so a Saint may have a poor covering, ragged clothes, but he is inlaid with gold, Christ is formed in his heart, and so he is all glorious within.
Branch. 4 4. If Christ be all, see here a Christians Inventory; ⟨p. 427⟩how rich is he that hath Christ*! he hath all that may make him compleatly happy. Plutarch reports that the wife of Phocion being asked where her jewels were, she answered, My husband and his triumphs are my jewels! so if a Christian be asked where are his riches, he will say, Christ is my riches. A true Saint cannot be poor; if you look into his house, perhaps he hath scarce a bed to lie on.