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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. 4 4. Grace hath a soul-cleansing excellency. By nature ⟨p. 519⟩we are defiled; sin is an impure issue, 'tis a be filthying thing, 2 Cor. 7.1. A sinners heart is so black, that nothing but hell can pattern it; but grace is lavacrum animae, a spiritual laver; therefore it is called the washing of regeneration, Tit. 3.5. The grace of Repentance cleanseth: Mary's tears, as they washed Christs feet, so they washed her heart; faith hath a cleansing virtue, Acts 15.9. Having purified their hearts by faith. Grace lays the soul a whitening, it takes out the Leopards spots, and turns the Cypress into an azure beauty. Grace is of a Celestial nature, though it doth not wholly remove sin, it doth subdue it; though it doth not keep sin out, it keeps it under; though sin in a gracious soul doth not dye perfectly, yet it dies daily. Grace makes the heart a spiritual Temple, which hath this inscription upon it, Holiness to the Lord.
Excellency. 4 4. Grace hath a soul-cleansing excellency. By nature ⟨p. 519⟩we are defiled; sin is an impure issue, 'tis a be filthying thing, 2 Cor. 7.1. A sinners heart is so black, that nothing but hell can pattern it; but grace is lavacrum animae, a spiritual lavor; therefore it is called the washing of regeneration, Tit. 3.5. The grace of Repentance cleanseth: Maries tears, as they washed Christs feet, so they washed her heart; faith hath a cleansing vertue, Acts 15.9. Having purified their hearts by faith. Grace layes the soul a whitening, it takes out the Leopards spots, and turns the Cypriss into an azure beauty. Grace is of a Celestial nature, though it doth not wholly remove sin, it doth subdue it; though it doth not keep sin out, it keeps it under; though sin in a gracious soul doth not dye perfectly, yet it dies daily. Grace makes the heart a spiritual Temple, which hath this inscription upon it, Holiness to the Lord.