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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.
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.
2. Let us try whether our grace be true! There is something Use 2 looks like grace which is not▪ Chrysostom saith the Devil hath a counterfeit chain to all the graces,1 and he would deceive us with it. Lapidaries have ways to try their precious stones; let us try our grace by a Scripture touchstone; the painted Christian shall have a painted Paradise.
2. Let us try whether our grace be true! There is something Use 2 looks like grace which is not▪ Chrysostom saith the Divel hath a counterfeit chain to all the graces,1 and he would deceive us with it. Lapidaries have wayes to try their precious stones; let us try our grace by a Scripture touchstone; the painted Christian shall have a painted Paradise.
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