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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.
1. Because once he had grace, and lost it; if a father give his son a stock to trade with, and the son breaks, the father is not bound to set him up again. God gave Adam a stock of grace to begin the world with; Adam did break, and make all his children Bankrupts; God is not tied to give him grace again.
1. Because once he had grace, and lost it; if a father give his son a stock to trade with, and the son breaks, the father is not bound to set him up again. God gave Adam a stock of grace to begin the world with; Adam did break, and make all his children Banquerupts; God is not tyed to give him grace again.
2. God may justly deny his grace to every wicked man, because he is a despiser of grace, he tramples this pearl under foot, Prov. 1.7. Is God bound to give grace to them that despise it? If a Kings pardon be rejected once, he is not bound to tender it any more; but I shall not launch forth any further into this.
2. God may justly deny his grace to every wicked man, because he is a despiser of grace, he tramples this pearle under foot, Prov. 1.7. Is God bound to give grace to them that despise it? If a Kings pardon be rejected once, he is not bound to tender it any more; but I shall not launch forth any further into this.