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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. What are all the signs which the Scripture gives ⟨p. 438⟩of a man in Christ but so many ciphers, if the knowledge of this interest may not be had? 1 John 3.14. We know that we have passed from death unto life because we love the brethren; and 1 John 4.13. Hereby we know that we dwell in him and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. Here are two [Greek or Hebrew], evident characters of a man in Christ; now these signs are in vain if assurance may not be arrived at.
2. What are all the signes which the Scripture gives ⟨p. 438⟩of a man in Christ but so many ciphers, if the knowledge of this interest may not be had? 1 John 3.14. We know that we have passed from death unto life because we love the brethren; and 1 John 4.13. Hereby we know that we dwell in him and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. Here are two 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, evident characters of a man in Christ; now these signs are in vain if assurance may not be arrived at.
3. There are some duties enjoined in Scripture, which to perform is utterly impossible; if the knowledge of an interest in Christ be not attainable; we are bid to rejoice in God, Phil. 4.4. and to rejoice in tribulation,