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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.
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, 2 Tim. 1.12. Gal. 2.20. Yea, may some say, Paul was an eminent believer, a Christian of the first magnitude, no wonder if he had this jewel of assurance! nay, but the Apostle speaks of it as a case incident to other believers, Rom. 8.35. [Greek or Hebrew]? who shall separate us from the love of Christ? He doth not say, Who shall separate me? but us! so that by all it appears that a believer may come to spell out his interest in Christ.
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, 2 Tim. 1.12. Gal. 2.20. Yea, may some say, Paul was an eminent believer, a Christian of the first magnitude, no wonder if he had this jewel of assurance! nay, but the Apostle speaks of it as a case incident to other believers, Rom. 8.35. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉? who shall separate us from the love of Christ? He doth not say, Who shall separate me? but us! so that by all it appears that a believer may come to spell out his interest in Christ.
Caution 1. Not that the Saints have always the Caution 1 fame certainty, or that they have such an assurance as excludes all doubtings and conflicts; there will be flowings and ebbings in their comforts, as well as in their graces; was it not so in David? sometimes we hear him say, Gods loving-kindness was before his eyes,