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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.
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.
3. Gods Solemn Engagement; the Lord hath passed it under hand and seal; he hath given bond for the Saints perseverance. Jer. 32, 40. I will make an everlasting Covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, and they shall not depart from me. A believers Charter is confirmed under the broad Seal of heaven; and if grace doth not endure to eternity, it is either because God wants power to make good what he hath decreed, or truth to make good what he hath promised; either of which to assert were blasphemy.