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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. 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.
2. Make Christ all in your affections.
1. Desire nothing but Christ, he is the accumulation of all good things. Ye are complete in him, Col. 2.10. Christ is the Christians perfection; what should the soul desire less? what can it desire more*? Psal. 73.25. Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee. David had his Crown and his Throne to delight in; I but it was the presence of Christ he chiefly thirsted after; without Christ all his other comforts were not only emptiness, but bitterness.