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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.
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.
- 1Exhort.
1. That this knowledge is feasible, it may be had, 1 John 5.13. These things have I written to you that believe, that ye may know ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the Name of the Son of God. The meaning is, the Apostle wrote to these believers that they might know they were believers, and might be assured Christ was theirs. Indeed the Papists deny this certainty of knowledge; it is inserted in one of their Canons, Anathema sit — Let him be Anathema, who holds assurance. But that we may arrive at it, I shall evince by these demonstrations.
1. Why else doth God bid us make our calling and election sure, 2 Pet. 1.10. if assurance may not be had? and to prove our selves whether we are in the faith,