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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. 3.
Showing, that this Kingdom shall be certainly and infallibly entailed upon the Saints.
Shewing, that this Kingdom shall be certainly and infallibly entailed upon the Saints.
3. I shall next clear the truth of this Proposition, that the Saints shall be possessed of this Kingdom.
1. In regard of Gods [Greek or Hebrew], or free-grace. Luke 12.32. It is your Fathers good pleasure to give you a Kingdom. 'Tis not any desert in us, but free-gra•• in God: The Papists say we •e•t the Kingdom ex condigno; but we disclaim the title of merit; heaven is a donative.