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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.
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.
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 phantasmes and nullities, if the assurance of union with Christ be not feasible.
5. Some of the Saints have arrived at this certainty of knowledge; therefore it may be had. Job knew that his Redeemer lived, Job 19.25. And Saint Paul had this assurance,