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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.
Excellency. 1 1. Grace hath a soul-quickening excellency in it. Hebr. 10.38. The just shall live by faith. Men void of grace are dead; they have breath, yet want life; they are walking ghosts, Eph. 2.1. The life of sin is the death of the soul*: A sinner hath all the signs of one that is dead; he hath no pulse; the affections are the pulse of the soul; his pulse doth not beat after God, he hath no sense. Eph. 4.19. [Greek or Hebrew], who being past feeling. Dead things have no beauty, there's no beauty in a dead flower; dead things are not capable of privilege; the dead heir is not crowned; but grace is the vital artery of the soul; it doth not only irradiate, but animate; therefore it is called lumen vitae, the light of life, John 8.12. And believers are said to have their grave-clothes pulled off, and to be alive from the dead, Rom. 6.13. By grace the soul is grafted into Christ the true Vine, John 15.5. and is made not only living, but lively, 1 •et. 1.3. Grace puts forth a Divine Energy into the soul.
Excellency. 1 1. Grace hath a soul-quickning excellency in it. Hebr. 10.38. The just shall live by faith. Men void of grace are dead; they have breath, yet want life; they are walking ghosts, Eph. 2.1. The life of sin is the death of the soul*: A sinner hath all the signs of one that is dead; he hath no pulse; the affections are the pulse of the soul; his pulse doth not beat after God, he hath no sense.