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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.
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.
5. Christ is bonum rarum, a rare blessing; there are but few that have him; the best things when they grow common, begin to be slighted; when silver was in Jerusalem as stones, 1 Kings. 10.27. it was apt to be trod upon; Christ is a jewel that few are enriched with, which may both raise our esteem of him, and quicken our pursuit after him; those to whom God hath given both the Indies, he hath not given them Christ; they have the fat of the earth, but not the dew of heaven; and among us Protestants, many who hear of Christ, but few that have him. Luke 4.25. Many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, but unto none of them was Elijah sent save unto Sarepta, a City of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow. There are many in this City who have Christ sounded in their ears, but few who hae Christ