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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.
1. He hath no justification; what a glorious thing is it when a poor sinner is absolved from guilt, and is declared to be rectus in curia! but this privilege flows from Christ; all pardons are sealed in his blood. Acts 13.39. [Greek or Hebrew], By him all that believe are justified: So then he who is out of Christ, is unjustified; the rea• us, or guilt of sin cleaves to him; he must be responsible to justice in his own person, and the curse stands in full force against the sinner.
1. He hath no justification; what a glorious thing is it when a poor sinner is absolved from guilt, and is declared to be rectus in curia! but this priviledge flows from Christ; all pardons are sealed in his blood. Acts 13.39. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, By him all that believe are justified: So then he who is out of Christ, is unjustified; the rea• us, or guilt of sin cleaves to him; he must be responsible to justice in his own person, and the curse stands in full force against the sinner.
2. He that wants Christ, wants the beauty of holiness; Jesus Christ is a living spring of grace. John 1.14. Full of grace and truth. Now a Christless person is a graceless person, he hath not one shred of holiness. The scions must first be engrafted into the stock, before it can receive sap and influence from the root; we must first be engrafted into Christ, before we can of his fullness receive ⟨p. 429⟩grace for grace, John 1.16