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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.
Besides all this, Jesus Christ our blessed High Priest, who hath the golden plate on his fore-head, appears in the Court; and as he poured out blood on the Cross, so he pours forth prayers in heaven for the Saints perseverance. Hebr. 7.25. He ever liveth to make intercession for them. And Christ is not only a Priest, but a Son; therefore likely to prevail; and which puts the matter out of doubt, what Christ prays for as he is man, he hath power to give as he is God. John 17.24. Father, I will; Father, there he prays as man; I will, there he gives as God.
Besides all this, Jesus Christ our blessed High Priest, who hath the golden plate on his fore-head, appears in the Court; and as he poured out blood on the Cross, so he poures forth prayers in heaven for the Saints perseverance. Hebr. 7.25. He ever liveth to make intercession for them. And Christ is not only a Priest, but a Son; therefore likely to prevail; and which puts the matter out of doubt, what Christ prays for as he is man, he hath power to give as he is God. John 17.24. Father, I will; Father, there he prays as man; I will, there he gives as God.
So that grace is an abiding thing; Christians, you may lose your friends, your estates, your lives; but you shall never lose your grace. Those who hold falling away from grace, would make a believer wear Cains mark, which was a continual shaking and trembling in his flesh; they would spill a Christians cordial, and break a link of the chain of salvation.