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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. If Christ be all, then set an high valuation upon Use 3 Jesus Christ. 1 Pet. 2.7.1 To you that believe he is precious. If there were a jewel which contained in it Branch. 1 the worth of all jewels, would you not prize that? such a jewel is Christ; so precious is he, that Saint Paul counted all things [Greek or Hebrew], dung, that he might win Christ, Phil. 3.8. Oh that I could raise the appreciation of Jesus Christ! prize Christ above your Estates, above your Relations; that man doth not deserve Christ at all, who doth not prize Christ above all. Jesus Christ is an incomprehensible blessing; whatever God can require for satisfaction, or we can desire for salvation, is to be found in Christ; oh then let him be the highest in our esteem; no writing shall please me, saith Saint Bernard, if I do not read the Name of Christ there. The Name of Christ is the only music to a Christians ear, and the blood of Christ is the only cordial to a Christians heart.
1. If Christ be all, then set an high valuation upon Use 3 Jesus Christ. 1 Pet. 2.7.1 To you that believe he is precious. If there were a jewel which contained in it Branch. 1 the worth of all jewels, would you not prize that? such a jewel is Christ; so precious is he, that Saint Paul counted all things 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, dung, that he might win Christ, Phil. 3.8. Oh that I could raise the appretiation of Jesus Christ! prize Christ above your Estates, above your Relations; that man doth not deserve Christ at all, who doth not prize Christ above all. Jesus Christ is an incomprehensible blessing; whatever God can require for satisfaction, or we can desire for salvation, is to be found in Christ; oh then let him be the highest in our esteem; no writing shall please me, saith Saint Bernard, if I do not read the Name of Christ there. The Name of Christ is the only musick to a Christians ear, and the blood of Christ is the only cordial to a Christians heart.