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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.
7. Christ is bonum fine quo nihil bonum; he is such a good, as without which nothing is good; without Christ health is not good, 'tis fuel for lust; riches are not good, they are golden snares; Ordinances are not good; though they are good in themselves, yet not good to us, they profit not; they are as breasts without milk, as bottles without wine; nay, they are not only a dead letter, but a savour of death; without Christ they will damn us; for want of Christ millions go loaded to hell with Ordinances.
8. Christ is bonum permanens, an enduring good; other things are like the Lamp, which while it shines it spends; the heavens shall wax old like a garment, Psal. 102.26. — But Jesus Christ is a permanent good, with ⟨p. 435⟩him are durable riches, Prov. 8.18. They last as long as eternity it self lasts.
9. Christ is bonum diffusum, a diffusive, communicative good; he is full, not only as a vessel, but as a spring, he is willing to give himself to us; if indeed Christ should say, he would have nothing to do with us, we are not in his Commission, he is not sent to such sinners as we, then we might despair; but he is willing that we should have him; he calls, Come unto me all ye that are weary; he would fain have the match made up between us and him; oh that we were but as willing as Christ is! Now then if there be all this variety of excellency in Jesus Christ*