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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.
5. Make Christ all in your affiance, trust to none ⟨p. 448⟩but Christ for salvation; the Papists make Christ something, but not all; they trust partly to Christ, and partly to their own merits; they pray to Christ and Angels; to Christ as a Mediator of Redemption, and to Angels as Mediators of Intercession; they invocate the Virgin Mary for mercy, so mingling her milk with Christs blood; but what is given to others superstitiously, is taken from Christ sacrilegiously; they have their Masses, Penance, extreme unction; they confess ind•ed Christs blood doth wholly satisfy for Original sin, but sins after Baptism committed, they have fountains of their own to wash in. The Eagles feathers will not mix with other feathers; Christ will not endure to have his blood mixed either with the merits of Saints, or prayers of Angels. Christ will be all in all, or nothing at all.
5. Make Christ all in your affiance, trust to none ⟨p. 448⟩but Christ for salvation; the Papists make Christ something, but not all; they trust partly to Christ, and partly to their own merits; they pray to Christ and Angels; to Christ as a Mediator of Redemption, and to Angels as Mediators of Intercession; they invocate the Virgin Mary for mercy, so mingling her milk with Christs blood; but what is given to others superstitiously, is taken from Christ sacrilegiously; they have their Masses, Pennance, extream unction; they confess ind•ed Christs blood doth wholly sati•fie for Original sin, but sins after Baptisme committed, they have fountains of their own to wash in. The Eagles feathers will not mix with other feathers; Christ will not endure to have his blood mixed either with the merits of Saints, or prayers of Angels. Christ will be all in all, or nothing at all.
And is there not naturally a spice of Popery in our hearts? we would be grafting happiness upon the stock of our own righteousness; every man (saith Luther) is born with a Pope in his heart. How ready are we to Idolize our duties and graces, and to draw so much from the stream, as to neglect the Spring! Oh make Christ all in regard of recumbency; let him be your City of refuge to fly to, your Ark to trust to. It was a good speech of Luther, If I could keep the whole Moral Law, I would not trust to this for justification, I would veil and stoop to Christs merits.