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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.
2. Grace is known by the growth of it, growth evidenceth life. Dead things grow not; a picture will not grow: An hypocrite, who is but a picture of Religion, doth not grow; a good Christian grows in love to Christ, in humility, in good works. Psal. 92.12. Hos. 14.5. He shall grow as the lily, his branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the Olive-tree, and his smell as Lebanon. When the Spirit of God distils as dew upon the soul, it makes grace flourish, and put forth into maturity.
2. Grace is known by the growth of it, growth evidenceth life. Dead things grow not; a picture will not grow: An hypocrite, who is but a picture of Religion, doth not grow; a good Christian grows in love to Christ, in humility, in good works. Psal. 92.12. Hos. 14.5. He shall grow as the lilly, his branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the Olive-tree, and his smell as Lebanon. When the Spirit of God distills as dew upon the soul, it makes grace flourish, and put forth into maturity.
3. True grace will make us willing to suffer for Christ. Grace is like gold, it will abide the fiery trial, 1 Pet. 1.7. — And if upon a serious scrutiny and trial we find that we have the right jewel, the grace of God in truth, Col. 1.6. this will be a death-bed cordial; we may with Simeon, depart in peace, being assured that though we cannot resist death, yet we shall overcome it.