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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. He that wants Christ, hath no true Nobility; it is through Christ that we are akin to God, of the blood-royal of heaven; it is through Christ that God is not ashamed to be called our God, Hebr. 11.16. But out of Christ we are looked upon as ignoble persons; the Traitors blood runs in our veins; a man out of Christ is base-born; whoever is his natural father, the Devil is his spiritual father, John 4.48.
3. He that wants Christ, hath no true Nobility; it is through Christ that we are akin to God, of the blood-royal of heaven; it is through Christ that God is not ashamed to be called our God, Hebr. 11.16. But out of Christ we are looked upon as ignoble persons; the Traytors blood runs in our veins; a man out of Christ is base-born; whoever is his natural father, the Divel is his spiritual father, John 4.48.
4. He that wants Christ, wants his freedom; nihil durius servitute. John 8.36. If the Son make you free, you shall be free indeed. A man out of Christ, is a slave, when he sins most freely.
5. He that wants Christ, hath no ability for service; he is as Sampson, when his lock was cut; his strength is gone from him, he wants a vital principle, he cannot walk with God, he is like a dead member in the body, that hath neither strength nor motion.