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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. 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.
Answ. 1. Is thy soul fill'd 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 loadstone hath been drawing it.
2. Hast thou given up thy self by an universal subjection to Christ? art thou his not only by education, but dedication? this is a good sign that Christ is thine. Psal. 27.8. When thou saidst, Seek ye my face, my heart said unto thee, Thy face Lord will I seek.