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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.
Answ. 1. See your need of Christ, know that you are undone without him. How obnoxious are you to Gods eye! how odious to his nature! how obnoxious to his justice! O sinner, how near is the Serjeant to arrest thee! The Furnace of hell is heating for thee, and what wilt thou do without Christ? 'tis only the Lord Jesus can stand as a screen to keep off the fire of Gods wrath from burning thee. Tell me then, is there not need of Christ? though Christ be offered to sinners, yet he will not have his love abused, he will not throw away himself upon such as see no need of him; see thy self wounded, and then Christ that good Samaritan, will pour in wine and oil into thy wounds; think often of that Scripture, John 3.18. He that believeth not, [Greek or Hebrew], is condemned already. He that dies in his sin, not laying hold on Christ by faith, is as sure to be condemned, as if he were condemned already.
Answ. 1. See your need of Christ, know that you are undone without him. How obnoxious are you to Gods eye! how odious to his nature! how obnoxious to his justice! O sinner, how near is the Serjeant to arrest thee! The Furnace of hell is heating for thee, and what wilt thou do without Christ? 'tis only the Lord Jesus can stand as a screen to keep off the fire of Gods wrath from burning thee. Tell me then, is there not need of Christ? though Christ be offered to sinners, yet he will not have his love abused, he will not throw away himself upon such as see no need of him; see thy self wounded, and then Christ that good Samaritan, will poure in wine and oyle into thy wounds; think often of that Scripture, John 3.18. He that believeth not, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, is condemned already. He that dies in his sin, not laying hold on Christ by faith, is as sure to be condemned, as if he were condemned already.