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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.
Answ. Answ. 1. Make duty familiar to you; when the Spouse sought Christ diligently, she found him joyfully, Cant. 3.4. The Ordinances are the Lattice where Christ looks forth, and gives the soul a smiling aspect. As Christ was made known to his Disciples in the breaking of bread, Luke 24.35. so in the use of holy Ordinances, in the breaking of bread, Christ makes a glorious discovery of himself to the soul. Christs parents found him in the Temple, Luk. 2.46. They who would find Christ with comfort, and have the kisses of his lips, shall be sure to meet with him in the Temple.
2. Preserve the virginity of conscience; when the glass is foul you will not pour wine into it, but when it is clean; so when the soul is cleansed from the love of every sin, now God will pour in the sweet wine of assurance*. Hebr. 10.22. Let us draw near in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience. Guilt clips the wings of joy; he who is conscious to himself of secret sin, cannot draw near to God in full assurance; he cannot come with boldness, but blushing; he cannot call God Father, but Judge; assurance is a flower that grows only in a pure heart; before David prays for joy, he first prays for a pure heart. Psal. 51.10. Create in me a clean heart O God.
2. Preserve the virginity of conscience; when the glass is foule you will not poure wine into it, but when it is clean; so when the soul is cleansed from the love of every sin, now God will poure in the sweet wine of assurance*