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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.
4. The cogency and necessity of grace; it is most needful, because it fits us for communion with God. 2 Cor. 6.14. What communion hath light with darkness? God can no more converse with an ungracious soul, than a King can converse with a Swine; it is by grace that we keep a constant intercourse with heaven.
1. Let me with the greatest zeal and earnestness persuade Use 1 all who have souls to save,1 to endeavour after grace; this is the Unum Necessarium; grace will be desirable ⟨p. 516⟩at death; it is as useful now, and more seasonable to look after. Prov. 4.7. With all thy getting get understanding. Alexander being presented with a rich Cabinet of King Darius, he reserved it to put Homers works in, as being of great value. The heart is a spiritual Cabinet into which the jewel of grace should be put; we should desire grace above other things; above the gifts of the Spirit; nay, above the comforts of the Spirit. Comfort is sweet, but grace is better than comfort; bread is better than honey; we may go to heaven without comfort, not without grace; it is grace makes us blessed in life and death. I shall show you twelve rare Excellencies in grace: I shall set this fair Virgin of grace before you, hoping that you will be tempted to fall in love with it.
1. Let me with the greatest zeal and earnestness perswade Use 1 all who have souls to save,1 to endeavour after grace; this is the Unum Necessarium; grace will be desirable ⟨p. 516⟩