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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.
— Minus te amat qui aliquid tecum amat. —
3. Make Christ all in your abilities, do all in his strength. Ephes. 6.10. Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. When you are to resist a tentation, to mortify a corruption, do not go out in your own strength, but in the strength of Christ: Be strong in the Lord. Some go out to duty in the strength of parts, and go out against sin in the strength of resolutions, and they come home foiled. Alas! what are our resolutions, but like the green withs which did bind Sampson! a sinful heart will soon break these; do as David when he ⟨p. 447⟩was to go against Goliath, saith he, I come to thee in the Name of the Lord. So say to thy Goliath-lust, I come to thee in the Name of Christ. Then we conquer, when the Lyon of the Tribe of Judah marcheth before us; Christ is called an horn of salvation, Luke 1.69. The strength of a creature lies in his horn; so the strength of a believer lies in this horn of salvation: Oh make Christ all, do all in his strength. The Bird may as well fly without wings, as we can do any thing prevailing without Christ. 1 Sam. 2.9. For by strength shall no man prevail.
3. Make Christ all in your abilities, do all in his strength. Ephes. 6.10. Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. When you are to resist a tentation, to mortifie a corruption, do not go out in your own strength, but in the strength of Christ: Be strong in the Lord. Some go out to duty in the strength of parts, and go out against sin in the strength of resolutions, and they come home foiled. Alas! what are our resolutions, but like the green withs which did binde Sampson! a sinful heart will soon break these; do as David when he