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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.
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*, it may make us ambitiously desirous of an interest in him.
- *Multifaria suav•tatis dull cedo exube•at in pectore Domini Jesu. Bern.Multifaria suav•tatis dul cedo exube•at in pectore Domini Jesu. Bern.