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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
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.
SECT. 2.
Showing wherein the Kingdom of heaven excels other Kingdoms.
Shewing wherein the Kingdome of heaven excels other Kingdomes.
2. Having shown wherein the Saints in glory are like Kings, let us next see wherein the Kingdom of heaven exceeds other Kingdoms.
2. HAving shewn wherein the Saints in glory are like Kings, let us next see wherein the Kingdom of heaven exceeds other Kingdoms.
It exceeds, 1. In the Founder and Maker; other Kingdoms have men for their builders, but this Kingdom hath God for its builder: Hebr. 11.10. Heaven is said to be made without hands, 2 Cor. 5.1. to show the excellency of it; neither Man or Angel could ever lay stone in this building; God doth erect this Kingdom; its Builder and Maker is God.