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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.
2. It is called grace because it is a work of free-grace*; every link in the golden chain of our salvation is wrought and enamelled with free-grace. That one should be sanctified, and not another, this is of grace; that God should pass by many of the Noble, Rich, Learned, and graft his heavenly endowments upon a more wild luxuriant Stock, a crabbed nature, weaker parts, well may it be called grace.
2. It is called grace because it is a work of free-grace*; every link in the golden chain of our salvation is wrought and enamel'd with free-grace. That one should be sanctified, and not another, this is of grace; that God should pass by many of the Noble, Rich, Learned, and graft his heavenly endowments upon a more wilde luxuriant Stock, a crabbed nature, weaker parts, well may it be called grace.
- *Gratia quasi gratis data.
Quest. Quest. But why is not grace bestowed upon all?
Answ. Answ. We must hold with Zanchy, there is always a just reason of Gods will; but in particular, I answer.
Answ. Answ. We must hold with Zanchy, there is alwayes a just reason of Gods will; but in particular, I answer.