A96093:1774
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.
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.
2. The Author or Efficient of grace; namely, the Spirit of God, who is therefore called the Spirit of grace, Zach. 12.10. The Spirit is the fountain from whence crystal streams of grace flow*. Man, as Clemens Alexandrinus observes, is Gods Harp or Timbrel; the Harp will not sound, unless touched with the finger; so the heart of man cannot put forth any gracious harmony, till first it be touched with the finger of Gods Spirit; this blessed Spirit works grace in the Subject, 1. Universally. 2. Progressively.
2. The Authour or Efficient of grace; namely, the Spirit of God, who is therefore call'd the Spirit of grace, Zach. 12.10. The Spirit is the fountain from whence chrystal streams of grace flow