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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.
There are some bid fair for Christ, they will part with some sins, but keep a reserve. Jacob would let all his sons go but Benjamin; whereas if you leave but one sin in your heart, it will be as an Egg for Satan to brood upon. If a man part with many lovers, and retain the love but of one Harlot, he is an Adulterer: so if thou partest with many sins, and dost retain the love but of one sin, ⟨p. 437⟩thou hast an adulterous heart, and Christ will not make up a match with thee. Doth that man think he shall have Christs love that feeds sin in a corner? O part with all for him who is all. Part with thy lusts, nay thy life if Christ calls.
There are some bid fair for Christ, they will part with some sins, but keep a reserve. Jacob would let all his sons go but Benjamin; whereas if you leave but one sin in your heart, it will be as an Egge for Satan to brood upon. If a man part with many lovers, and retain the love but of one Harlot, he is an Adulterer: so if thou partest with many sins, and dost retain the love but of one sin, ⟨p. 437⟩thou hast an adulterous heart, and Christ will not make up a match with thee. Doth that man think he shall have Christs love that feeds sinne in a corner? O part with all for him who is all. Part with thy lusts, nay thy life if Christ calls.
3. It exhorts us not only to get Christ, but to labour Branch. 3 to know that we have Christ,1 1 John 2.3. hereby we know that we know him. This reflex act of faith is more than the direct act. Some Divines call it sensus fidei, the perception, or sensible feeling of faith; now concerning this knowledge that Christ is ours, which is the same with assurance, I shall lay down these four Corollaries or conclusions.