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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. Assurance is difficult to be obtained; it is a rare jewel, but hard to come by; not many Christians have this jewel.
1. God sees it good sometimes to with-draw assurance from his people, that they may walk humbly; through the corruption of our nature we are apt to abuse the richest mercies; the Moth breeds in the finest cloth, the Worm in the sweetest fruit; pride is apt to breed in this sweet fruit of assurance. It is hard for Christians to want assurance, and be content; and to have it, and be humble.
2. Satan doth what he can to way-lay and obstruct our assurance; he is called the red Dragon, Rev. 12.3. And how doth he trouble the waters of a Christians peace? If the Devil cannot keep a believer from heaven, he will do what he can to keep him from an heaven upon earth; he will wrack him with fears and disquiets. If he cannot blot a Christians evidence, yet sometimes he casts such a mist before his eyes, that he cannot read his evidence; the Devil envies that God should have any glory, or the soul any comfort.
2. Satan doth what he can to way-lay and obstruct our assurance; he is called the red Dragon, Rev. 12.3. And how doth he trouble the waters of a Christians peace? If the Divel cannot keep a believer from heaven, he will do what he can to keep him from an heaven upon earth; he will wrack him with fears and disquiets. If he cannot blot a Christians evidence, yet sometimes he casts such a mist before his eyes, that he cannot read his evidence; the Divel envies that God should have any glory, or the soul any comfort.