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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. Christ is bonum transcendens, a supreme good; put what you will in the balance with Christ, he doth infinitely out-weigh. Is life sweet? Christ is better! he is the life of the soul, Col. 3.4. his loving-kindness is better than life, Psal. 63.3. Are Relations sweet? Christ is better; he is the friend sticks closer than a brother.
1. Christ is bonum transcendens, a supreme good; put what you will in the ballance with Christ, he doth infinitely out-weigh. Is life sweet? Christ is better! he is the life of the soul, Col. 3.4. his loving-kindness is better than life, Psal. 63.3. Are Relations sweet? Christ is better; he is the friend sticks closer than a brother.
2. Christ is bonum sufficiens, a sufficient good; he who hath Christ, needs no more; he who hath the Ocean, needs not the Cistern. If one had a Manuscript that contained all manner of learning in it, having all the Arts and Sciences, he need look in no other book; so he that hath Christ, needs look no further. Christ gives grace and glory, Psal. 84.11. The one to cleanse us, the other to crown us; as Jacob said, It is enough, Joseph is yet alive, Gen. 45.28. So he that hath Christ, may say,1 it is enough, vivit Christus, Jesus is yet alive.
- 1Luther.