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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.
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.
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 flie 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 vail and stoop to Christs merits.
6. Make Christ all in your joy. Gal. 6.14. God forbid that I should glory, save in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Luke 1.47. My spirit rejoiceth in God my Saviour. The Virgin Mary did not so much rejoice that she was Christs Mother, as that Christ was her Saviour; she did not so much rejoice that Christ was conceived in her womb, as that he was formed in her heart; how glad was Simeon when he had taken Christ in his arms! Luke ⟨p. 449⟩2.29. How cheerful may that man be who hath taken Christ in the arms of his faith? The wise men when they saw the star, rejoiced with exceeding great joy,