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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.
6. Christ is bonum selectum, a select choice good; God shows more love in giving us Christ, than in giving us Crowns and Kingdoms. God may give us other things, and hate us; but in giving Christ he bestows the highest pledge of his love; God may give the men of the world bona scabelli, as Austin saith, the blessings of the foot-stool; but in giving Christ to a man, he gives him bona Throni, the blessings of the Throne; what though others have a crutch to lean on, if thou hast a Christ to lean on! Abraham sent away the sons of the Concubines with gifts, but he gave all he had to Isaac, Gen. 25.5. God may send away others with a little gold and silver; but if he gives thee Christ, he gives thee all that ever he hath; for Christ is all, and in all: Psal. 145.16. Thou openest thy hand, and satisfiest every living thing; in bestowing the world, God doth but open his hand; but in bestowing Christ, he opens his heart; Christ is a crowning blessing.
6. Christ is bonum selectum, a select choice good; God shews more love in giving us Christ, than in giving us Crowns and Kingdoms. God may give us other things, and hate us; but in giving Christ he bestows the highest pledge of his love; God may give the men of the world bona scabelli, as Austin saith, the blessings of the foot-stool; but in giving Christ to a man, he gives him bona Throni, the blessings of the Throne; what though others have a crutch to lean on, if thou hast a Christ to lean on! Abraham sent away the sons of the Concubines with gifts, but he gave all he had to Isaac, Gen. 25.5. God may send away others with a little gold and silver; but if he gives thee Christ, he gives thee all that ever he hath; for Christ is all, and in all: Psal. 145.16. Thou openest thy hand, and satisfiest every living thing; in bestowing the world, God doth but open his hand; but in bestowing Christ, he opens his heart; Christ is a crowning blessing.