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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 will put us upon passive obedience: Rom. 5.3, 5. We glory in tribulation, because the love ⟨p. 442⟩of God is shed abroad in our hearts. He that hath Christs love shed into his heart, will be willing to shed his blood for Christ; he who knows Christ is his, will come to him with Peter upon the waters; he comforts himself with this, though he lose all for Christ, he shall find all in Christ. Mr. Fox speaks of a woman in Queen Mary's days, who when the adversaries threatened to take her husband from her, she answered, Christ is my husband; when they threatened to take away her children, she answered, Christ is better to me than ten sons; when they threatened to take away all from her, saith she, Christ is mine, and you cannot take away him from me; that man who is assured Christ is his, will hazard the loss of all for him; he knows though he may be a loser for Christ, he cannot be a loser by Christ; for Christ is all, and in all. No wonder Saint Paul was willing to be bound, and dye for Christ, Acts 21.13. when he knew that Christ loved him, and had given himself for him, Gal. 2.20. Though I will not say Paul was proud of his chain, yet he was glad of it, he wore it as a chain of pearl.
2. Assurance will put us upon passive obedience: Rom. 5.3, 5. We glory in tribulation, because the love ⟨p. 442⟩of God is shed abroad in our hearts. He that hath Christs love shed into his heart, will be willing to shed his blood for Christ; he who knows Christ is his, will come to him with Peter upon the waters; he comforts himself with this, though he lose all for Christ, he shall find all in Christ. Mr. Fox speaks of a woman in Queen Maries dayes, who when the adversaries threatned to take her husband from her, she answered, Christ is my husband; when they threatned to take away her children, she answered, Christ is better to me than ten sons; when they threatned to take away all from her, saith she, Christ is mine, and you cannot take away him from me; that man who is assured Christ is his, will hazard the loss of all for him; he knows though he may be a loser for Christ, he cannot be a loser by Christ; for Christ is all, and in all. No wonder Saint Paul was willing to be bound, and dye for Christ,