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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.
Answ. But hast thou not Christ? and is not Christ all? Answ. Psal. 16.5, 6. The Lord is the portion of my inheritance, and of my cup, the lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places, yea, I have a goodly heritage. Christ is omnibus Thesauris opulentior, an inexhaustible Treasury;1 and he who by faith is united to him, hath a title to all Christs riches. A beggar being married to a Prince, she hath a right and title to all his Revenues.
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Object. 2. If indeed I knew Christ were mine, then I Object. 2 could rejoice, but how shall I know that?
Object. 2. If indeed I knew Christ were mine, then I Object. 2 could rejoce, but how shall I know that?
Answ. 1. Is thy soul filled with anhelations and pantings after Christ? Answ. dost thou desire as well water out of Christs sides to cleanse thee, as blood out of his sides to save thee? These sighs and groans are stirred up by the Spirit of God, by the beating of this pulse judge of the life of faith in thee; a wicked man hath none of these breathings after Christ. Job 21.14. They say unto ⟨p. 450⟩God depart from us. Christ and grace are dead commodities, they care not for them; if the heart move Christward, the Spirit as a divine lodestone hath been drawing it.