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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.
4. If Christ be all, then make him so to Branch. 4 you.
1. Make Christ all in your understanding, be ambitious to know nothing but Christ. 1 Cor. 2.2. For I determined not to know any thing among you save Jesus ⟨p. 444⟩Christ. The Greek word is [Greek or Hebrew], I judged not; I did not think any thing in my judgement worth knowing in comparison of Christ. Austin saith of Cicero, he liked his eloquence, but he could not take so much delight in reading him, quia Nomen Christi non erat ibi, because he could not find the Name of Christ there; what will all other knowledge avail a man at his death, who is ignorant of Christ? — Si Christum nescis, nihil est si coetera noscis. — What is it to have knowledge in Physic? to be able with Aesculapius and Galen to discourse of the causes and symptoms of a disease, and what is proper to apply, and in the mean time to be ignorant of the healing under Christs wings? What is it to have knowledge in Astronomy, to discourse of the Stars and Planets, and to be ignorant of Christ that bright morning star which leads to heaven? what is it to have skill in a shop, and ignorant of that commodity which doth both enrich and crown? what is it to be versed in Music, and to be ignorant of Christ, whose blood makes atonement in heaven, and music in the conscience? what is it to know all the stratagems of War, and to be ignorant of the Prince of peace? O make Christ all, be willing to know nothing but Christ; though you may know other things in their due place, yet know Christ in the first place; let the knowledge of Jesus Christ have the preeminence; as the Sun among the lesser Planets.
1. Make Christ all in your understanding, be ambitious to know nothing but Christ. 1 Cor. 2.2. For I determined not to know any thing among you save Jesus ⟨p. 444⟩