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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. 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, 1 Pet. 4.13. How can he rejoice in suffering, who doth not know whether Christ be his or no?
3. There are some duties enjoyned in Scripture, which to perform is utterly impossible; if the knowledge of an interest in Christ be not attainable; we are bid to rejoyce in God, Phil. 4.4. and to rejoyce in tribulation, 1 Pet. 4.13. How can he rejoyce in suffering, who doth not know whether Christ be his or no?
4. Why hath Christ promised to send the Comforter, John 14.16. whose very work it is to bring the heart to this assurance, if assurance that Christ is ours may not be had? Therefore in Scripture we read of the seal of the Spirit, Ephes. 1.13. The earnest and first-fruits, 2 Cor. 1.22. Rom. 8.23. The promise of the Comforter were in vain, the earnest and witness of the Spirit were but phantasms and nullities, if the assurance of union with Christ be not feasible.