A96093:1773
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.
3. Grace is taken figuratively, and improperly for the show of grace; as we call that a face in the glass, which is but the idea, and resemblance of a face; so John 2.23. Many believed in his Name; that believing was but a show of faith, as Austin and Theophilact note.
3. Grace is taken figuratively, and improperly for the shew of grace; as we call that a face in the glass, which is but the idaea, and resemblance of a face; so John 2.23. Many believed in his Name; that believing was but a shew of faith, as Austin and Theophilact note.
4. Grace is taken in a genuine and proper sense; so in the Text, Grace be multiplied; it may admit of this description; Grace is the infusion of a new and holy principle into the heart, whereby it is changed from what it ⟨p. 513⟩was, and is made after Gods own heart. Grace makes not only a civil, but sacred change; it biaseth the soul heaven-ward, and stamps upon it the image and superscription of God.
4. Grace is taken in a genuine and proper sense; so in the Text, Grace be multiplied; it may admit of this description; Grace is the infusion of a new and holy principle into the heart, whereby it is changed from what it ⟨p. 513⟩was, and is made after Gods own heart. Grace makes not only a civil, but sacred change; it byasseth the soul heaven-ward, and stamps upon it the image and superscription of God.