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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.
3. Be much in the actings of faith; the more active the child is in obedience, the sooner he hath his fathers smile; if faith be ready to dye, Rev. 3.2. if it be like Armour hung up, or like a sleepy habit in the soul, never look for assurance. God will not speak peace to thee when thou art asleep; it is the lively faith which flourisheth into assurance. Abraham had a vigorous, sparkling faith. Rom. 4.18. who against hope believed in hope. That is against the hope of sense he believed in the hope of the promise; and how sweetly doth God manifest himself to Abraham? he calls him his friend, he makes him of his Cabinet-counsel, Gen. 18.17. Shall I hide from Abraham the thing which I do? Wouldst thou have Christ reveal his love to thee? keep faith upon the wing; this is the Bird which soars aloft, and plucks a bunch of grapes from the true Vine.
3. Be much in the actings of faith; the more active the childe is in obedience, the sooner he hath his fathers smile; if faith be ready to dye, Rev. 3.2. if it be like Armour hung up, or like a sleepy habit in the soul, never look for assurance. God will not speak peace to thee when thou art asleep; it is the lively faith which flourisheth into assurance. Abraham had a vigorous, sparkling faith. Rom. 4.18. who against hope believed in hope. That is against the hope of sense he believed in the hope of the promise; and how sweetly doth God manifest himself to Abraham? he calls him his friend, he makes him of his Cabinet-counsel, Gen. 18.17. Shall I hide from Abraham the thing which I do? Wouldst thou have Christ reveal his love to thee? k•ep faith upon the wing; this is the Bird which soars aloft, and plucks a bunch of grapes from the true Vine.