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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.
The Arguments to prove the perpetuation of grace, are:
1. Gods Election; this I ground upon Rom. 8.29, 30. Whom he did fore-know, he also did predestinate. Predestination is the grand cause of the Saints preservation; God ⟨p. 525⟩chooseth as well to salvation, as to saith, 2 Thes. 2.13. What shall make Gods Election void?
2. The Power of God. 1 Pet. 1.5. We are kept by the power of God through faith to salvation. I deny not but grace in it self may perish, (our grace is no better coin than Adams) but grace in Gods keeping cannot; the Saints graces of themselves may break as glasses, but these glasses in the hand of God shall never break.
2. The Power of God. 1 Pet. 1.5. We are kept by the power of God through faith to salvation. I deny not but grace in it self may perish, (our grace is no better coyne than Adams) but grace in Gods keeping cannot; the Saints graces of themselves may break as glasses, but these glasses in the hand of God shall never break.