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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.
1. We cannot know our selves unless we know Christ; he it is who lights us into our hearts, and shows as the spots of our souls, whereby we abhor our selves ⟨p. 445⟩in dust and ashes. Christ shows us our own vacuity and indigency; and until we see our own emptiness, we are not fit to be filled with the golden oil of mercy.
1. We cannot know our selves unless we know Christ; he it is who lights us into our hearts, and shews as the spots of our souls, whereby we abhor our selves ⟨p. 445⟩in dust and ashes. Christ shews us our own vacuity and indigency; and untill we see our own emptiness, we are not fit to be filled with the golden oyle of mercy.
2. We cannot know God, but through Christ, 2 Cor. 4.6. Out of Christ God is terrible, he is a consuming fire; it is through Christ that we know God as a friend; oh then treasure up the knowledge of Christ; he is the golden ladder by which we ascend to heaven; to be ignorant of Christ, is as if a man were poisoned, and there were an herb in the garden could cure him, but he is ignorant of that herb.
2. We cannot know God, but through Christ, 2 Cor. 4.6. Out of Christ God is terrible, he is a consuming fire; it is through Christ that we know God as a friend; oh then treasure up the knowledge of Christ; he is the golden ladder by which we ascend to heaven; to be ignorant of Christ, is as if a man were poysoned, and there were an herb in the garden could cure him, but he is ignorant of that herb.