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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.
7. He that wants Christ, hath no salvation. Eph. 5.23. He is the Saviour of the body; he saves none but them who are members of his body mystical; a strong Scripture against the doctrine of universal redemption; Christ leaped into the Sea of his Fathers wrath, only to save his Spouse from drowning; he is the Saviour of the body, so that those who dye out of Christ are cut off from all hopes of salvation.
Use 2 2. It reproves them who busy themselves about other things with a neglect of Christ; Reproof. magno conatu nihil agunt. — Isa. 55.2. Wherefore do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which satisfieth not? If you get all the world, you are but golden beggars without Christ. The Physician finds out noxious diseases, but is ignorant of soul-diseases; and while he gets Receipts to cure others, he neglects the receipt of Christs blood to cure himself. The Lawyer while he clears other mens titles to their Land, ⟨p. 431⟩he himself wants a title to Christ. The Tradesman is busied in buying and selling, but neglects to trade for the pearl of price; like Israel, who went up and down to gather straw; or like the load-stone, that draws iron to it, but refuseth gold. These who so mind the world, as to neglect Christ, their work is but spider-work. Hab. 2.13. Is it not of the Lord of Hosts that the people shall labour in the fire, and weary themselves for very vanity?
Use 2 2. It reproves them who busie themselves about other things with a neglect of Christ; Reproof. magno conatu nihil agunt. — Isa. 55.2. Wherefore do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which satisfieth not? If you get all the world, you are but golden beggars without Christ. The Physitian finds out noxious diseases, but is ignorant of soul-diseases; and while he gets Receits to cure others, he neglects the receit of Christs blood to cure himself. The Lawyer while he clears other mens titles to their Land,