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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 sweetens all our comforts; he turns them into blessings; health is blessed, estate is blessed, relations are blessed. Christs love is as the pouring sweet water on flowers, which makes them cast a more fragrant perfume. A wicked man cannot have that comfort in outward things as a godly man hath; he may possess more, but he enjoys less; he who hath Christ, may say, This mercy is reached to me by the hand of my Saviour, this is a love-token from him, an earnest of glory.
1. Christ sweetens all our comforts; he turns them into blessings; health is blessed, estate is blessed, relations are blessed. Christs love is as the pouring sweet water on flowres, which makes them cast a more fragrant perfume. A wicked man cannot have that comfort in outward things as a godly man hath; he may possess more, but he enjoyes less; he who hath Christ, may say, This mercy is reached to me by the hand of my Saviour, this is a love-token from him, an earnest of glory.
2. Christ sanctifies all our crosses, they shall be medicinal to the soul; they shall work sin out, and work grace in; Gods stretching the strings of his Viol, is to tune it, and make the music better; Christ sees to it that his people lose nothing in the Furnace but their drossy impurities*.
2. Christ sanctifies all our crosses, they shall be medicinal to the soul; they shall work sin out, and work grace in; Gods stretching the strings of his Viol, is to tune it, and make the musick better; Christ sees to it that his people lose nothing in the Furnace but their drossie impurities*.
- *Quod durum fuit pa•i, memi nisse dulce est Sen. Trag.