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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. Be importunate after Christ Lord, give me Christ or I die. As Acsah said to her father Caleb, Josh. 15.19. ⟨p. 436⟩Thou hast given me a South land, give me also springs of water. So should a poor soul say, Lord, thou hast given me an estate in the world, but this South-land will not quench my thirst, give me also springs of water. Give me those living springs which run in my Saviours blood; Thou hast said, Let him that is athirst come, and whosoever will let him take the water of life freely, Rev. 22.17, 18. Lord, I thirst after Jesus Christ, nothing but Christ will satisfy me; I am dead, I am damned without him, oh give me this water of life. When the blind man was importunate, Jesus stood still, Luke 18.40. and wrought a cure upon him, verse 42. Christ cannot deny a praying soul. As the tender mother opens the breast when the child cries for it: so when an humble, thirsty sinner cries importunately to heaven, God will open the breast of free-grace, and say, Here, take my Christ, be satiated with him, let him be to thee all in all, both for food and medicine.
2. Be importunate after Christ Lord, give me Christ or I die. As Acsah said to her father Caleb, Josh. 15.19. ⟨p. 436⟩Thou hast given me a South land, give me also springs of water. So should a poor soul say, Lord, thou hast given me an estate in the world, but this South-land will not quench my thirst, give me also springs of water. Give me those living springs which run in my Saviours blood; Thou hast said, Let him that is athirst come, and whosoever wil let him take the water of life freely, Rev. 22.17, 18. Lord, I thirst after Jesus Christ, nothing but Christ will satisfie me; I am dead, I am damned without him, oh give me this water of life. When the blind man was importunate, Jesus stood still,