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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.
But grace doth consolidate and fix the heart. Psal. 57.7. My heart is fixed, O God. Hypocrites are like Meteors in the Air; David was a fixed star; grace keeps the heart upright; and the more sincere, the more steadfast; grace carries the heart to God as the centre, and there it rests, Psal. 116. Psal. 7. A gracious heart cleaves to God, and let whatever changes come, the soul is settled as a Ship at Anchor.
But grace doth consolidate and fix the heart. Psal. 57.7. My heart is fixed, O God. Hypocrites are like Meteors in the Aire; David was a fixed star; grace keeps the heart upright; and the more sincere, the more stedfast; grace carries the heart to God as the center, and there it rests, Psal. 116. Psal. 7. A gracious heart cleaves to God, and let whatever changes come, the soul is setled as a Ship at Anchor.
11. Grace hath a preparatory excellency in it; it prepares Excellency. 11 and fits for glory. Glory is the highest peg of our felicity, it transcends all our thoughts; glory can have no Hyperbole*. Now grace tunes and fits the soul for glory: 2 Pet. 1.3. Who hath called us to glory and virtue. Virtue leads to glory. First you cleanse the Vessel, and then pour in the wine. God doth first cleanse us by his grace, and then pour ⟨p. 524⟩